[Nix-dev] Customizing kernel options and thoroughly failing.

[Matthew Robbetts]

> On Jul 23, 2016, at 3:20 PM, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me at tobias.gr> wrote:
> 
> Sorry: Matt,
> 
> On 24/07/2016 0:16, Matthew Robbetts wrote:
>>> On Jul 23, 2016, at 3:12 PM, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me at tobias.gr> wrote:
>>> Try dropping the ‘CONFIG_’s.
>> 
>> Dammit!
> 
> How do you think I learned? ;-) Thought I'd save you the half hour.
> 
> Shea's suggestion is good too (and what I do myself), but might be
> overkill for such a small handful of options. And — in theory — upstream
> might add wonderful new options that won't automatically make it into
> your kernel.

Yeah, that’s exactly what I was thinking. Plus, I’m absolutely loving having one central configuration.nix expression that totally defines my system. It gives me all the warm and fuzzies. Not needing to maintain other types of configuration too is a definitely win in my book.


> Whether or not that's a problem is up to you.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> T G-R

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