Re: kerenls: hand-rolled v. stock

["Benedict Verheyen" <linux4bene@telenet.be>]

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Nori Heikkinen" <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu>
>To: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 6:29 PM
>Subject: kerenls: hand-rolled v. stock
>i'm looking into grabbing a new kernel (because the one i'm using
>doesn't appear to have the "soundcore" option either compiled in or as
>a module -- can i fix this without updating kernels?).  the one i have
>right now, i hand-rolled froum the 2.4.20 source.  i don't feel like
>doing anothert one myself right now if i don't have to.
>
>in general, is there much of an advantage to hand-rolling over
>grabbing a stock kernel?  i feel like everything i probably want to
>insert as a module (soundcore; usb; whatever) should be available in a
>stock kernel.
>
>thanks,
>
></nori>

If you don't need any specific patches for certain hardware drivers or
if most
modules you need are available, then rolling your own kernel isn't
necessary.
I always role my own kernel (it's easy in debian) to get the pinguin on
boot up and to slim down the kernel.

As for soundcore, i think it's in from the 2.4 kernels. If you don't
find
the module on your system, then maybe it wasn't compiled in.
To look for sound related config options in the kernel config:

grep "SOUND" /boot/config-<kernel version>

Regards,
Benedict