On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:10:39 Christoph Lameter wrote:The advantage would be that the same kernel source could then be built into a custom version with only the config changed.Since building with various configs is hardly unusual it would save some carrying of multiple sources, for those who build for several uses already.Could you make the scheduler build time configurable instead of replacing
the existing one? Embedded folks in particular may love a low footprint
scheduler.
It's not a bad idea, but the kernel still needs to be patched either way. To get BFS they'd need to patch the kernel. If they didn't want BFS, they wouldn't patch it in the first place.