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Quotes of the week

Posted Dec 1, 2011 2:18 UTC (Thu) by thedevil (subscriber, #32913)
Parent article: Quotes of the week

It's fairly hard to know what precisely you need to enable in a hand built kernel, these days. Is there a shortcut to determine that?

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Quotes of the week

Posted Dec 1, 2011 3:22 UTC (Thu) by dkrawchuk (subscriber, #21896) [Link]

Copy the config file for the kernel that you are running from /boot to .config. Then plug in all of the accessories that you normally use and run make localmodconfig. That should give you a good start.

Quotes of the week

Posted Dec 2, 2011 3:52 UTC (Fri) by thedevil (subscriber, #32913) [Link]

"all of the accessories that you normally use"

There's the catch. I can't even plug them all in at once (not enough USB connectors). And what about those that currently sit in the drawer, but I may someday reuse them? I don't want to suddenly be forced to recompile the kernel then.