Re: Linux kernel config maintainablility

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi David,

David Craven <address@hidden> skribis:

>> I was hoping we could come up with a way to generate a kernel config,
>> either based on ‘allmodconfig’ or something like what NixOS does [0],
>> but I’ve become pretty convinced that this would be difficult at best.
>
> What difficulties did you encounter with using allmodconfig as a basis?

I forgot the details, but maybe the list archive has some info.

>> NixOS has a nicer way to express this, but long ago people thought it might 
>> be fragile.
>
> I agree that how nixos does it seems a little fragile. From what I've
> heard the kernel settings and their defaults change frequently with
> each release. This is why I think relying on the kernel devs to
> provide reasonable defaults makes more sense IMO.
>
> I'd like to make it easy to build custom kernels, I remember using an
> auto detect config feature a while back when using arch. But before
> working on that I need to actually transition to guixsd...

Heh.  :-)

Ludo’.