On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 10:42:17PM +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robb...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > No, I don't agree that kernel configs "belong" to kernel packages. In > > general, barring the crazy option explosion, these are meant to be stock > > working configs that should in combination with ANY kernel package, > > produce a working kernel. > > > > Then you are just moving the problem around. > I believe that kernel configs should be provided by their own kernel > packages (and there are some, not just gentoo-sources) because it is > much easier to keep them in sync on every new release and deal with > each version separately if/as needed (including testing!). How are you > dealing with config var name changes between different kernel versions > or just different pkgs then? > > You cannot possibly support all kernel versions for all kernel pkgs > available in tree with just one single config file in a sane, clean > and maintainable way, hoping that a change in this file will not > affect previous or future kernel releases. How are you going to test > your config changes against old kernel pkgs? Each test is quite > expensive to run. I never said I was going to support all different kernel sources.
genkernel only officially supports gentoo-sources & hardened-sources. (and those are supersets of the vanilla tree). The stock genkernel config actually works for most users, on most kernel sources, on most systems; and parts of it date back to 2.6.14. Sure it doesn't turn on all of the features requested, but it does actually work. That said, I do intend to included an official kernel config for each major kernel release 3.x; for both hardened & gentoo-sources. Infra uses the hardened one, and releng uses the gentoo-sources one. The only change really is that the packaging is going to be separate from genkernel, and it'll get a bit more care than before. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Infrastructure Lead E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85
