Realistically, common-config is useful, but there are a lot of things in
there that are non-optionally specified that aren't always useful. For
example, when deploying grsecurity, I don't want the bluetooth,
wireless, or input joystick/extra filesystem stack (XFS, etc), nor the
staging drivers tree.
The problem is that if you specify this in your own kernel config in the
grsecurity module, by saying 'BT n' to turn off bluetooth,
common-config turns on 'BT_HCIUART_BCSP y', which then becomes unused
and errors out.
This is really just an arbitrary picking at the moment, but it should be
OK.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
Although this is a release canidate version of kernel 3.12, there are
reasons for merging this anyway, as discussed in #1010 and #1006.
Thanks to @offlinehacker for this and the initial pull request.
It's bad to have the kernel config scattered across two places. (This
should also be done for the other architectures.)
Also, restore Xen and KVM guest support in Linux 3.10.
Having N different copies of the NixOS kernel configuration is bad
because these copies tend to diverge. For instance, our 3.10 config
lacked some modules that were enabled in older configs, probably
because the 3.10 config had been copied off an earlier version of some
older kernel config.
So now there is a single kernel config in common-config.nix. It has a
few conditionals to deal with new/removed kernel options, but
otherwise it's pretty straightforward.
Also, a lot of cut&paste boilerplate between the kernel Nix
expressions is gone (such as preConfigure).