Am Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:43:40 -0700 schrieb Bill Longman <bill.long...@gmail.com>:
[...] > I find it amazing, though, that even if I copy my old .config, it still > takes me so much time to make sure all the settings are correct for a > given machine. Hasn't anyone come up with a handy > look-through-my-lspci-output-and-create-a-skeleton-kernel-config tool? > Or does it already exist and we just call him "Pappy"? Not really what you want, but somebody thought of something similar. Since Linux 2.6.32 you can do: make localmodconfig [1]. That will take the output of lsmod (so you need an already running kernel, e.g., from a live CD) and remove all unnecessary modules from the existing kernel .config. [1]: see http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_32, section 1.8. HTH -- Marc Joliet
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