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Kernels may be evilKernels may be evilPosted Dec 9, 2011 4:45 UTC (Fri) by jd (guest, #26381)Parent article: Quotes of the week
BUT, until there's an autoconfig tool that scans the busses, chipsets, et al, for "default hardware" and plugs the right settings into .config, most users won't be up to it. As for distros, the only one that might even develop such a tool is Gentoo - Debian and Fedora certainly aren't going to be interested, although a "self-optimizing" version of their distros might not be a bad idea.
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Kernels may be evil Posted Jan 8, 2012 7:11 UTC (Sun) by dirtyepic (subscriber, #30178) [Link]
What I'd rather see is help documentation that is actually geared towards the user rather than the kernel developer and updated more than once every five years or so (if at all). Every time I read the help for "Yoyodyne KS25A1-1 Telsa Microcomp v2.1 support" and it says "Enables Yoyodyne KS25A1-1 Telsa Microcomp v2.1 support" I die a little inside.
I've always thought it would be an awesome LinuxNewbies or Gentoo Wiki project to translate things like "Enable system-call auditing support" into "Enable this if you want consolekit to work properly".
As for hardware/drivers, there is always the LKDDb (http://cateee.net/lkddb). There is also an automatic configuration script provided but I couldn't get it to work properly.
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