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Hi, |
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the Linux kernel has _a lot of_ configuration options, way too many to configure them by hand. |
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Many of these configuration options seem to be kernel centric (they deactivate a specific compilation unit, they deactivate specific source code parts). |
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However, my main configuration requirements as a user are mostly user space program or feature centric. I want to activate kernel support for a specific feature, e.g. docker support or cryptsetup support. |
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This requires a mapping between user oriented "features" and the kernel internal configuration options. This mapping exists already at the Gentoo wiki [e.g. 1, 2, 3]. |
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Gentoo also provides (via gentoo-sources) a set of patches that adds some meta configuration options to enable some of exactly that user specific features (Systemd, OpenRC and Portage support). |
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Do you think that it is useful and feasible to combine these two mechanisms? |
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A possible way could be to automatically extract the kernel config flags from the wiki pages and map them to Kconfig options. |
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Best regards, |
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Gerion |
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[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Docker#Kernel |
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[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Dm-crypt#Kernel_Configuration |
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[3] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/AMDGPU#Kernel |
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