On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:19 PM, William Brown <william@firstyear.id.au> wrote:

On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 21:06 -0500, Brian West wrote:
> On 11/27/2012 07:44 PM, JD wrote:
> > Hi Bruno, Alan,
> >
> > The rpmbuild interface does not provide the user a way
> > to go through the entire config options before proceeding
> > to build the kernel. If it does, I would really like to know
> > how it's done.
> >

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel

> > Thanx.
> i second that this would be nice so that we can tailor our kernels to
> our config and not have unrequired drivers.

The current kernel is module based, so you don't have "unneeded drivers"
loaded.

The main point is that the build takes too darned long.
On my unicore cpu, it takes almost 2 days.
Building bazillions of useless modules is a great waste of time and machine.