On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, John Aspinall wrote: > I'm building my first kernels from sources, and I'm comparing the result > with the kernel as shipped with typical major distro. The > "distro-kernel" is loaded with every possible option built as a module. > (Not at all surprising, since they need to install on all kinds of > hardware.) But this brings up the following question: > > I run lsmod in my distro-kernel to find the modules I actually need on > this particular hardware. But how do I establish the relationship > between the module name, and the configuration option I should choose > when doing 'make config' or 'make xconfig'? The correspondence is not > always obvious. > > John >
Have a look at Documentation/Configure.help in your source tree. If you're using `less' you can search with the `/' key, then scroll up to read the lines above the module name where the configure option is listed. It's probably also worth looking at what options are nearby in this file, to try to get pointers to where you can actually find the option in menuconfig or xconfig. HTH Ken -- Will code payroll for food. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
