On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 03:53:56PM -0700, Michael O'Keefe wrote:
> randall wrote:
>> Does anyone know if there is a program that looks at the hardware on a 
>> linux platform, then lists the necessary kernel modules and no others?  
>> I want to optimize a kernel for one of my platforms, but a recent 
>> glance at menuconfig shows literally hundreds of possibilities that is 
>> becoming confusing and I am afraid to do this manually.
>
> What I used to do was install the stock kernel, and then see what was  
> used, and remove the rest
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Yeah, he could do a make oldconfig and just remove all the extra bits.

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