On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 01:56:28AM +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote: > Is it just me who find this whole ide ironic? > > Have everyone forgotten how to set up their own kernel? Is everyone now > booting GENERIC? (Or just making a copy of GENERIC, with a few patches > without understanding what they are editing?)
I often run GENERIC kernels. In fact, the only reason I'm not running it on the machine I'm on now is because for some reason one of the devices I wanted was commented out (spdmem). Given what I need the machine to do, GENERIC works fine, and I'd rather spend my time on more useful things (like spouting random bs on mailing lists :) ) > For basically no gain in functionality, a lot of new mess to deal with > when managing the system, and a lot of work... I definitely agree that this is important criteria to keep in mind. It's easy to get distracted by things that look cool, even if they don't work. I know I've gone down that path many times. eric
