2.6.23 kernel

[Kevin Kofler]

Res <res <at> ausics.net> writes:
> Yes it takes time, on my tiny desktop of p4 2.4g with only a measy 1 gig 
> ram, it takes a whole 12 mintues to build and install, wow if you cant 
> drag yourself away from the pc for 12 pissy little minutes, you seriously 
> have problems

The time it needs depends on the number of modules you pick (and the time you 
spend configuring to select exactly the modules you need is _your_ time, not 
the computer's time, so there's a point at which it makes more sense to just 
enable what might be useful, also because you don't want to have to go back 
later and rebuild to add the modules you didn't compile but end up needing) and 
the speed of the computer. On a slow machine (like my PII 266 laptop), it can 
take hours. (Of course, I rebuilt a Fedora SRPM, with all the modules that 
enables, just adding a patch, but see the previous point, reducing the compile 
time would have meant spending _my_ time on improving the configuration. The 
patch is no longer necessary and I'm running stock Fedora kernels on that 
laptop now, by the way.)

        Kevin Kofler