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From: Jed <jedi.theone@gmail.com>
To: Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: generic question
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:24:47 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AA290CF.5000806@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AA28EBB.5070401@gmail.com>

Actually I just realised...

I think when the system reboots it will only load the modules it needs 
from /lib/modules/[kernel version]/kernel/drivers/media...
It won't load everything in that directory into the kernel/memory right?

So the only reason one might want to use "make menuconfig"; is to 
prevent irrelevant compiled modules ending up in...
/lib/modules/[kernel version]/kernel/drivers/media

Feel free to correct if this understanding is wrong.

Cheers

Jed wrote:
> I installed _all_ dvb-v4l modules after compiling latest source 
> because at the time I couldn't use "make menuconfig" (didn't have 
> ncurses installed)
> Is there a way I can retrospectively remove some compiled/installed 
> modules so that I'm only using the ones I need?
> I only need modules associated with: 
> http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Saa7162_devices#DNTV_PCI_Express_cards 
>
>
> Cheers,
> Jed
>


  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-05 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-05 16:15 generic question Jed
2009-09-05 16:24 ` Jed [this message]
2009-09-05 19:04   ` Jed
2009-09-05 19:47     ` Jed

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