RE: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aleksandar L. Dimitrov [mailto:aleks_d@gmx.de] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 11:16 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel
> 
> 
> On Mon, 14 May 2007 22:16:04 +0100
> Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 15 May 2007 00:37:57 +0200, Aleksandar L. Dimitrov wrote:
> > 
> > > Gentoo is actually all about keeping all of the stuff as 
> minimal as 
> > > possible ;)
> > 
> > Gentoo is all about doing what you want, not what other 
> people think 
> > you should do. It doesn't matter whether you want all modules, all 
> > in-kernel, every module built or a compromise, it's up to you.
> > 
> > 
> Well, OK, I should probably add a 'for me' next time.
> 
> Still, the guy asked about opinions - and my opinion I gave. Nothing
> more: In my opinion keeping stuff simple and slim on the 
> kernel side means reliability and performance. This is an 
> opinion formed by the (admittedly limited) experience I got so far.
> 
> Regards, Aleks
> -- 
My personal preference, when it is it feasable, is to compile just the
modules the features that I actually have installed at the time, and
compile as much of it into the kernel as will function properly.

That way I don't have to worry about modprobing anything, and with the
newer kernels, most things that are compiled directly into the kernel
run pretty much automatically.
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