Hi,

What is the most important configuration before the kernel compile?
What configuration do you pay careful attention to?

What configuration I pay careful attention to is
the configuration about Hard disk driver, File system, Chipset.

I make sure that three of them are included properly in the kernel.
Then usually a kernel panic don't occur at least, I think.

And then I do pay careful attention to the network configuration.
Because if the network is unavailable, I don't need the system.

And I check CPU, the other device and etc. one by one.

In my experience,
if I make sure only the configuration about Hard disk driver, File system, Chipset properly,
then a kernel panic don't occur even if I don't pay much attention to the rest of the configuration or I configure the default.

What do you think?
What configuration do you pay careful attention to against the kernel panic?

I want to share your knowhow.
I would really appreciate that.
Thank you.

the filesystems definitely, at least the one you're booting from

your hardware drivers (hard disk, network card, ...) either in the
kernel or as modules

If you copy your current config to your kernel source tree
as .config:
cp /boot/config-$(uname) .config

then you run

make oldconfig

you should get them into your new starting config
then you can proceed with

make config
or
make menuconfig