In article <6027@pdxgate.UUCP> moyerg@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (gary a moyer) writes:
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>I am in the process of trying to get the kernel to compile.  Due to 
>limited memory size I would like to squeeze the kernel down to the
>essesntials.  My question is this:  can I omit the scsi drivers by
>modifying the config.dist.h and removing all the scsi #def's?  I
>am only using and IDE controller so I see no need for any of the
>scsi drivers.
>           Thanks.
>

You could, but as soon as the next Linux version comes out, you'll
have to do it again.  The way this works is you #undef CONFIG_DISTRIBUTION
in config.h, and tailor the config.site.h to suit your tastes.  

Default is for no SCSI drivers, normal hard disk, etc.

Theoretically, you will be able to keep the same config.site.h 
throughout the next N Linux releases, until some one puts in 
something you want.

Also, if you aren't using SCSI support, until a decent config utility
is used, you might want to remove the scsi.a reference and scsi reference
from the makefile after doing the configuration trick - this will cut compile
time some what.

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