Stupid is as stupid does - no config.gz in Fedora kernels

Everyone noticed that there is an option in the 2.x kernels to publish kernel configuration via config.gz. But the 'open source developers' are not using this feature, making compilation of a custom kernel a nightmare.

Even if one needs a custom kernel just so that it is optimized for the platform, there have to be many changes made to configuration compared to .config shipped with kernel sources to arrive at the functionality of pre-compiled kernels shipped from the repositories.

UPDATE Dec 2016: They quietly "borrowed" my idea and are now including config.gz into the new kernels by default.

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