Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-17 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Dan Farrell wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007 12:33:22 +1200 Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend of mine does this for his production servers: 1/ builds the known needed things into the kernel 2/ disables loadable modules completely This is probably not suitable for some use cases...(new

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-17 Thread Grant
I've been puzzling a bit lately over the best way to manage my kernel. I've always tried to keep it as minimal as possible, and I only enable things as I need them. I also don't build modules from the kernel at all. Is there a better way to go? I'm starting to think it might be better

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-15 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 03:57, Dan Farrell wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007 12:33:22 +1200 Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1/ builds the known needed things into the kernel 2/ disables loadable modules completely But Why? What's the benefit? Well, disabling loadable modules is

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-15 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 15 May 2007 09:21:17 +0200 Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 15 May 2007 03:57, Dan Farrell wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007 12:33:22 +1200 Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1/ builds the known needed things into the kernel 2/ disables loadable modules

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel': On Tue, 15 May 2007 09:21:17 +0200 Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 15 May 2007 03:57, Dan Farrell wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007 12:33:22 +1200 Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-14 Thread Grant
I've been puzzling a bit lately over the best way to manage my kernel. I've always tried to keep it as minimal as possible, and I only enable things as I need them. I also don't build modules from the kernel at all. Is there a better way to go? I'm starting to think it might be better to build

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 14. Mai 2007, Grant wrote: I've been puzzling a bit lately over the best way to manage my kernel. I've always tried to keep it as minimal as possible, and I only enable things as I need them. I also don't build modules from the kernel at all. Is there a better way to go? I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-14 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: I've been puzzling a bit lately over the best way to manage my kernel. I've always tried to keep it as minimal as possible, and I only enable things as I need them. I also don't build modules from the kernel at all. Is there a better way to go? I'm starting to think it might

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-14 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
On Mon, 14 May 2007 18:09:37 +0200 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Montag, 14. Mai 2007, Grant wrote: I've been puzzling a bit lately over the best way to manage my kernel. I've always tried to keep it as minimal as possible, and I only enable things as I need them. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 15 May 2007 00:37:57 +0200, Aleksandar L. Dimitrov wrote: Gentoo is actually all about keeping all of the stuff as minimal as possible ;) Gentoo is all about doing what you want, not what other people think you should do. It doesn't matter whether you want all modules, all in-kernel,

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-14 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
On Mon, 14 May 2007 22:16:04 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007 00:37:57 +0200, Aleksandar L. Dimitrov wrote: Gentoo is actually all about keeping all of the stuff as minimal as possible ;) Gentoo is all about doing what you want, not what other people

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-14 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Grant wrote: I've been puzzling a bit lately over the best way to manage my kernel. I've always tried to keep it as minimal as possible, and I only enable things as I need them. I also don't build modules from the kernel at all. Is there a better way to go? I'm starting to think it might be

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-14 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 15 May 2007 12:33:22 +1200 Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant wrote: I've been puzzling a bit lately over the best way to manage my kernel. I've always tried to keep it as minimal as possible, and I only enable things as I need them. I also don't build modules from the