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author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-10-09 13:14:32 -0400 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-10-09 13:14:32 -0400 |
commit | 8dd9117cc7a021ced1c5cf177e2d44dd92b88617 (patch) | |
tree | cad990f58f9ec6d400226dda86718fc10781416e /README | |
parent | 16e310ae6ed352c4963b1f2413fcd88fa693eeda (diff) | |
parent | 547b1e81afe3119f7daf702cc03b158495535a25 (diff) |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux
Pulled mainline in order to get the UAPI infrastructure already
merged before I pull in David Howells's UAPI trees for networking.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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@@ -206,6 +206,24 @@ CONFIGURING the kernel: "make randconfig" Create a ./.config file by setting symbol values to random values. + "make localmodconfig" Create a config based on current config and + loaded modules (lsmod). Disables any module + option that is not needed for the loaded modules. + + To create a localmodconfig for another machine, + store the lsmod of that machine into a file + and pass it in as a LSMOD parameter. + + target$ lsmod > /tmp/mylsmod + target$ scp /tmp/mylsmod host:/tmp + + host$ make LSMOD=/tmp/mylsmod localmodconfig + + The above also works when cross compiling. + + "make localyesconfig" Similar to localmodconfig, except it will convert + all module options to built in (=y) options. + You can find more information on using the Linux kernel config tools in Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt. |