From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Aspinall Subject: correlating module names and config options Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 21:36:17 -0400 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3F8DF611.5010708@rcn.com> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20030919151403.01f82f78@celine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20030919151403.01f82f78@celine> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org I'm building my first kernels from sources, and I'm comparing the result with the kernel as shipped with typical major distro. The "distro-kernel" is loaded with every possible option built as a module. (Not at all surprising, since they need to install on all kinds of hardware.) But this brings up the following question: I run lsmod in my distro-kernel to find the modules I actually need on this particular hardware. But how do I establish the relationship between the module name, and the configuration option I should choose when doing 'make config' or 'make xconfig'? The correspondence is not always obvious. John - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs