>On 2013-12-25, Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> prompted by the quest of a smaller kernel on my old OmniBook 800 (for >> which memory modules are harder to find than a standard laptop), I tried >> my luck with dmassage against a stock GENERIC 5.4 kernel conf. >> >> I used the generated config fil, except that I enabled a couple of more >> PCMCIA drivers, which are of course all disabled except the currently >> inserted card. > >Review the lines that dmassage has commented-out. You can fairly safely >remove unused drivers for network/scsi/audio controllers/USB devices, >but other drivers/pseudo-devices are more likely to give problems. >Trimming out devices (especially some scsi and nic drivers) will trim >out a lot, and if you then find you need to go further, you'll just >need to take it step by step with educated guesses. > >dmassage is about 12 years old, it is useful in some cases but >the generated config cannot be used directly.
And remember that if you use it, you are running a non-GENERIC kernel. It isn't that we don't like people running non-GENERIC kernels. The isue is that people who run custom kernels are often the type who don't switch back to GENERIC kernels before telling us of a problem they have encountered, and they have waste our time enough in the past. So it isn't that we hate non-GENERIC kernels, it is that we hate people who treat us so poorly. I think dmassage being unmaintained for 12 years, and this issue just coming up now, probably says a lot about that "type" of person. It's a type of person who can't fix dmassage, and then, sends us a mail. Sorry, but it's the truth.
