OpenWrt Next Generation Ideas

[Felix Fietkau]

On 31.03.23 18:40, Arınç ÜNAL wrote:

> I just thought of this. Why don't we just, for example, 'make
> mt7621_defconfig && make mod2noconfig', then compile normally with
> kernel module packages. This way, OpenWrt compiles a kernel with the
> least amount of kernel modules (or rather, it compiles the kernel like
> it always did), and people compiling the kernel outside of OpenWrt can
> choose to remove the kernel modules they don't need.

Because I believe the current OpenWrt kernel config system ist vastly 
superior for keeping target kernel configs in sync while at the same 
time making it easy to keep an overview of target specific overrides as 
well. This is especially relevant for updating the kernel version.

- Felix