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
It should be easy to know what hardware you don't have than what you
have. There are whole categories of stuff that's pretty esoteric.
Even if you goof, since you did save your old kernel config file, it's
easy to revert to the old kernel configuration.
Doesn't the kernel load only modules that *it* thinks are needed based
on a scan of the hardware at boot time? You can always remove modules
one at a time and see what happens. Lsmod shows dependencies if
anything else is using a given module, so I'd say you can rule those out
right off.
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