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