OpenWrt Next Generation Ideas

[Arınç ÜNAL]

On 31.03.2023 19:45, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> 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.

Hmm, well I'll take your word for it but feel free to explain more if 
you'd like.

Arınç