To give an example in my own case I added a SCSI card and cdwriter to my
machine and I've ordered a USB printer. Since neither of these devices was
connected to my machine when I installed my RH distro then neither of them
was supported in the kernel I downloaded a more recent kernel and compiled
it. Personally (and I'm sure other people on the list may disagree) I can
see no pint in recompiling unless:
a) your existing kernel has a serious bug in it
b) you add hardware that is obvously not supported.
Maybe someone on the list can answer a question that has puzzled me- what
happens on installation is linux seems to generate a custom kernel specific
to your needs but without recompilation -howso? NH.
> From: Tally Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 18:27:13 -0800 (PST)
> To: redhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: what is recompiling kernel ?
>
> hi all,
>
> i have read the docs for recompiling kernel.
>
> first why does one need to do. say i just installed
> linux on my desktop, why would one recompile kernel.
> one reason that comes to my mind is that if a newer
> kernel has been made available and i would my box to
> have that kernel. right ?
>
> second the term compiling here. does it have any
> bearing with the compiling as in what object file is
> compiled by a compiler to produce an executable (and
> later needs to be linked as well...) so does compiling
> here have the same sort of annotation. basically the
> docs say to run the command "make config"
>
> thanks
> tally
>
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