On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Bill Longman <bill.long...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
And I suppose you'd also have to beware of any removable devices that you may not have plugged in at the time which require kernel drivers.
