On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:48:37PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > if there's a simple way to do this, i've managed to miss it. i want to > configure and build a new kernel for my 64-bit ubuntu laptop to prep > for writing and loading numerous kernel modules for an upcoming device > driver course, so i did the obvious: > > $ make defconfig $ make help | grep localmodconfig localmodconfig - Update current config disabling modules not loaded $ make localmodconfig $ make nconfig # to remove code that is statically linked, or to # add/remove other features Any modules that aren't loaded won't get compiled in. See `make help` in the root of the kernel source directory for further help. > am i just missing something trivially obvious? It is also in the README in the root of the kernel source directory. You may want to check that too. Cheers, Alex Pilon