From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JByD7-0006fn-SI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:04:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C559E07A9; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:03:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com (out5.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE5BEE07A8 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:03:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 740D782DB8; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:03:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:03:58 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: kOGRq0K6q3eywgWjC0C+CL4pkjkD1Uo2fux8euZE6prT 1199736237 Received: from [10.161.71.88] (unknown [212.23.103.80]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F069AA04 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:03:56 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A pared down kernel config From: Florian Philipp To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <871w8ulf4s.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87r6gwxnpu.fsf@newsguy.com> <200801051906.28920.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <1199615900.6048.29.camel@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ> <871w8ulf4s.fsf@newsguy.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-rmwzv3mpKA68TjrqlWzI" Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:03:41 +0100 Message-Id: <1199739821.6048.33.camel@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 X-Archives-Salt: 60d2ad99-2ba1-4184-a597-a6754da41fcc X-Archives-Hash: 5e8239a3f880eaa8154e2c21fdce9f32 --=-rmwzv3mpKA68TjrqlWzI Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 17:15 -0600, reader@newsguy.com wrote: > Florian Philipp writes: >=20 > >> There's a reason for the existence of genkernel - it's so that you don= 't=20 > >> have to go through all this pain and suffering, and can instead remove= =20 > >> stuff a bit at a time with reasonable confidence it won;t blow up in=20 > >> your face :-) > >>=20 > > > > There is a fairly easy trick to get rid of pointless options like unuse= d > > drivers even if you are not sure about your hardware or the kernel > > options themselves:=20 > > Compile them as modules, then boot the new kernel. If the modules don't > > get loaded (lsmod is your friend) and everything works fine, throw them > > out of your configuration. >=20 > Nice... a small question: how do you keep up with what gets installed? > Do you ferret them out at /lib/modules with cmds like=20 > find . -name '*.ko' >=20 > Or is there a log created at compile time.. or maybe create one like > make modules_intall >mymod.log. Just thinking outload. >=20 > Following a `genkernal all' I saw a very big list get installed but didn'= t > think to log them. >=20 > I guess it would be harmless to just run the `make modules_intall' part > again and catch a list. >=20 I think you search for "modprobe -l" :) Have a nice day! --=-rmwzv3mpKA68TjrqlWzI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHgpOtqs4uOUlOuU8RArPBAJ0VRK41bFcveoFciBXHje9lRnI3lQCfUarZ 7SFjeuRSPxuQ/aM/PxDhrf8= =Wy56 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-rmwzv3mpKA68TjrqlWzI-- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list