Ive recompiled my kernel just a ton of times. I decided to make my own config file for gaming-r2 because I thought it would be easier than it was. I carefully read almost every kernel option description, choosing no when it said "when in doubt, choose no here" and "unless you know what your doing, choose no here" And... I didn't choose devfs! oops, must recompile the kernel again! so, we need a better way to compile the kernel in gentoo... I don't think I need to make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install && emerge alsa every time I make a mini change???! Why not have a depository for the .config files and other system settings... indexed by motherboard and processor etc... so that if somebody has it working on a particular system, somebody else can just copy their config settings? or at least have devfs and other required kernel options automatically seleted? or a wizard/script that asks you a few basic questions about your system... or probes it itself and does sane things like enable ide if you have ide? I'm sure that most of this exists... why does the documentation only say "make menuconfig, make sure that these things are installed then make dep && make bzImage modules modules_install ?? I have a bit of an idea of what it means... but not when its needed or where to find more information... this is kindof a rant now.. but.. I think I am capable of editing the descriptions of the kernel options to make them a bit more applicable to gentoo than they are... and I guess I'm willing to do so... but I don't really think that is the best way to go... redoing the make menuconfig would be cool, and some other tools would be nice too... I hear/see all this stuff about hardware detection and I wonder why I haven't benefited from it as much as I could... maybe that's cause the gaming-sources are much less patched that gentoo-sources? (arg, I'm submitting anyway, hopefully I didn't answer my own question) (eitherway I possed a lot more, hopefully not too emebeded)
a kernel autobuilder is being worked on and marked ~x86 in portage genkernel. As with any distro, we do not totally rebuild the kernel src tree or edit every menu help.
