Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:39:18 +0100
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: Florian Heigl <florian.heigl@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] What can we remove from our kernel?
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On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:09:21 +0100
Florian Heigl <florian.heigl@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 2012/1/23 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been looking at upgrading the kernel to 3.2 and I realize
> > that configuring kernel is a pretty big job. I am struggling with
> > keeping up with all the new stuff.
> 
> I'll try to list the kinds of odd stuff that I commonly use or
> definitely know be using in advance to keep it in...
> (but of course I could also be building my own kernel, it being odd
> stuff)

This is the kind of feedback I wanted.
 
> - infiniband (and mellanox drivers), rdma stuff, ipoib
CONFIG_RDS_RDMA is not set

Do you want me enable it?

> - solarflare nics (don't actually have one yet)

Are they enabled?

> - scst (generic scsi target)

Yes, I know there are many that use iscsi. I think we want follow
upstream and use linux-iscsi.org if possible. (meaning linux-scst goes
away in the long run)

> - ceph filesystem client
> - dmvpn / l2tpv3

DMVPN is one of the reasons Alpine Linux exists in first place and will
not go away.

Please let me know if anything of the above is missing in current
kernel.

> Another idea more in the spirit of AlpineLinux might be to start by
> ticking off all items that are on the Carrier Grade Linux requirements
> list, as these will probably apply to many users, and then look into
> what else is "nice to have".

Yes. I would need help with something like that. I think it would be
nice if we could split the kernel package in 2. -base and -extra. All
the "nice to have" things goes into extra and what the majority use is
in -base.

That'd be a start at least.

Thanks!

-nc


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