Hi , that was an Idea taken from your book Greg (LKN !) :-) but I am really looking out to automate this task - this will save lot of time and put in that time into something more interesting ;-) !
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 09:04:30AM +0530, onnm wrote: > > I am trying to write a script which will enable (update) Kernel to be > > automatically configured based on following things : > > > > (1) active modules in /proc/modules > > (2) output of lspci > > > > where else can I see to get a very minimal kernel image which will be > > required to run on a given machine ( obviously , running all devices > which > > were previously working !!) > > That's pretty simple, boot a distro kernel, take the installed modules, > and then only configure them in. > > > I thought Kernel configuration is a daunting task > > kernels which are configured for various distros (for instance Debian ! ) > > are not optimally configured for a specific machine (hence, make > oldconfig > > does not necessarily give optimal image !) > > > > Automatically configured kernel would be a great Idea and save lot of > time > > It would, that's why other people have done this before, you might want > to research some of that first :) > > good luck, > > greg k-h >
