[opensuse-kernel] Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

[Pekka Enberg]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp at alien8.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:41:21PM +0200, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Myklebust, Trond
>> <Trond.Myklebust at netapp.com> wrote:
>> > We could at least make selection of a minimal set of drivers for the
>> > more common virtualised platforms a lot easier.
>> > Right now, you need to hunt through 30+ different menus in order to find
>> > what you need to run in a basic KVM virtual machine...
>>
>> Yes, every time I build a kernel to be used on KVM I forget something. :-\
>>
>> We could introduce a section in Kconfig which contains selections for
>> common use cases.
>> E.g. as Linus requested for minimal distro requirements but also
>> selections for various common
>> guest configurations.
>
> +1.
>
> Same experience with building a kvm kernel so I couldn't agree more.

We have "make kvmconfig" in the KVM tool tree that pretty much does
that automatically. There's nothing tools/kvm specific about it so I
guess you could merge that separately.

                        Pekka