On 01/09/2018 07:11 PM, Marcin Kulisz wrote: > On 2017-12-29 15:22:31, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> On 12/29/2017 12:32 PM, Marcin Kulisz wrote: >>> I personally have a mixed feelings about it on one hand I like benefits of >>> having kernel tuned for virtualised systems but on the other it may cause >>> (as >>> lots of things in Debian) a bit of flame due to new kernel flavour. >>> Some time ago we had RT version so maybe it wouldn't be so controversial as >>> I'm >>> afraid it may be. >> >> The huge difference is that here, we're not asking for any kind of >> patch, but just a change in the configuration when building the kernel >> (ie: remove all the drivers that are unlikely to be used in cloud). > > In this case and as Waldi is a kernel-team member maybe he can speak to other > team mates about how they would feel about building one more kernel flavour > called something close to cloud or virtualisation. > > Looking back at this thread we have a few supporters with justifiable use > cases and such kernel will serve well to our users, so I'd say lets bring it > to > the kernel team.
IMO, best way forward is to actually write a patch, otherwise it will never be done. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo), who's *not* volunteering for this task
