Subject: Re: Kernel "vanity" config files
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@itojun.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/05/1999 21:23:34
>> (a) the kernel config files move to a more functional basis:
>> NOTEBOOK, DESKTOP, WEBSERVER, FILESERVER, RAIDSERVER etc, and/or
>This one is a good idea I think.
>We should also provide more than GENERIC, at last for i386 (too much bloat).
I think these names are easier to understand, and agree that it is a
good thing, but...
NOTEBOOK is too tricky to support. There are too many speical
cases and it will be almost impossible to make a "for every notebook
possible" configuration file.
itojun