[Tfug] ip_tables kernel code no longer possible to build into the kernel?

[t takahashi]

On 5/24/06, Robert Hunter <hunter at tfug.org> wrote:
> debian distribution sometimes lack support for newer hardware.  I would
> try to determine more precisely why your system wouldn't boot with a stock
> kernel, rather than attribute it to "some initrd nonsense".  That conveys
> roughly the same amount of information as saying, "oh noes, my computer
> machine is broken."

well, you asked me why i believe it doesn't work.  not booting is a
pretty good basis for such a belief, don't you think?  :-)  you didn't
ask for a bug report.

more precisely, here are my choices as i see them:

1.  go on a wild goose chase to find out why a stock kernel doesn't
work, only to find out that i will need to roll my own anyway.

2.  keep rolling my own, which up until now worked fine.

> Rather than recompile the entire kernel, you just grab the kernel headers
> ( available as a separate package ), and compile xfs and fuse as modules.
> It takes a fraction of the time, and you don't risk breaking your working
> kernel.

that sounds very appealing, once i find out how to compile them (maybe
make-kpkg can do it).  that answers one of my earlier questions.  if i
ever do decide to use a stock kernel that is what i will do.

but i still prefer a kernel that boots (custom) to one that does not
(stock).  it's just a thing with me.  :-)

thanks for your comments.

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