Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-17 Thread Grant
> I've been puzzling a bit lately over the best way to manage my kernel. > I've always tried to keep it as minimal as possible, and I only > enable things as I need them. I also don't build modules from the > kernel at all. > > Is there a better way to go? I'm starting to think it might be bett

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-16 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Dan Farrell wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007 12:33:22 +1200 Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A friend of mine does this for his production servers: 1/ builds the known needed things into the kernel 2/ disables loadable modules completely This is probably not suitable for some use cases...(ne

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel': > On Tue, 15 May 2007 09:21:17 +0200 > Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 May 2007 03:57, Dan Farrell wrote: > > > On

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-15 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 15 May 2007 09:21:17 +0200 Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 15 May 2007 03:57, Dan Farrell wrote: > > > On Tue, 15 May 2007 12:33:22 +1200 > > > > Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 1/ builds the known needed things into the kernel > > > 2/ disables loadab

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-14 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 03:57, Dan Farrell wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2007 12:33:22 +1200 > > Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1/ builds the known needed things into the kernel > > 2/ disables loadable modules completely > But Why? What's the benefit? Well, disabling loadable modules

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-14 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 15 May 2007 12:33:22 +1200 Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant wrote: > > I've been puzzling a bit lately over the best way to manage my > > kernel. I've always tried to keep it as minimal as possible, and I > > only enable things as I need them. I also don't build modules fr

RE: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-14 Thread burlingk
> -Original Message- > From: Aleksandar L. Dimitrov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 Bothwic

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-14 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Grant wrote: I've been puzzling a bit lately over the best way to manage my kernel. I've always tried to keep it as minimal as possible, and I only enable things as I need them. I also don't build modules from the kernel at all. Is there a better way to go? I'm starting to think it might be be

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-14 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
On Mon, 14 May 2007 22:16:04 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 pe

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
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,

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-14 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
On Mon, 14 May 2007 18:09:37 +0200 "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Montag, 14. Mai 2007, Grant wrote: > > I've been puzzling a bit lately over the best way to manage my > > kernel. I've always tried to keep it as minimal as possible, and I > > only enable things as I need t

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-14 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: > I've been puzzling a bit lately over the best way to manage my kernel. > I've always tried to keep it as minimal as possible, and I only > enable things as I need them. I also don't build modules from the > kernel at all. > > Is there a better way to go? I'm starting to think it mi

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 14. Mai 2007, Grant wrote: > I've been puzzling a bit lately over the best way to manage my kernel. > I've always tried to keep it as minimal as possible, and I only > enable things as I need them. I also don't build modules from the > kernel at all. > > Is there a better way to go? I

[gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-14 Thread Grant
I've been puzzling a bit lately over the best way to manage my kernel. I've always tried to keep it as minimal as possible, and I only enable things as I need them. I also don't build modules from the kernel at all. Is there a better way to go? I'm starting to think it might be better to build