Randall,
In most cases a Redhat based distro (Redhat, Centos, etc) will only
load required modules. The key is making sure you have the modules you
really need. The unnecessary ones will not load because there is not a
hardware device for them to bind to. The most critical are local storage
and network device modules and these are very easy to determine based on
the components of your system.
While there is no single tool (that I can think of) that just tells
you what modules you need it is pretty simple to use command line tools
like `lspci` and see what devices are there.
If you do a basic install using a modern distro it will load the
modules necessary and you can review a file like /etc/modprobe.conf to
see what modules were selected by the installation process for storage,
network and audio devices.
If you feel like your system has too many modules loaded you should
keep in mind that not just hardware modules are needed. Some networking
and process configurations have their own modules and if you configure a
complex system with network address translation (NAT), special routing
methods, firewalling that these modalities have their own module
requirements as well.
--Jeff
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.
- Randall
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