hello, I always find difficult to compile the kernel. The trouble is: there are too many device drivers available in the kernel source, and the process of compiling (like "make menuconfig") renders all the devices for the user to choose. And it is really confusing since chances are that people dont know which devices are available in their machine, so they dont know which device drivers should be selected to compile (otherwise if they choose everything to make sure the kernel works, the binary kernel would be too big). I think it would be very nice for "make menuconfig" first trying to detect what devices are available in the machine, then it "optimize" the selection of drivers to be compiled. After that user can refine what they want or not in the kernel. Is there any way to do that kind of thing ? Best regards, aq -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
