On 08/20/2010 11:44 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: > 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.
Thanks, Marc. So, if I boot off the livecd and I have eighty-five sata_ modules and forty-two RAID modules and 2.5 handsful of various scsi/iscsi modules, I should probably "modprobe -r" first, all those that aren't applicable to my given system then run the make? I'll take a look. Thanks again.
