Re: Automatic config file generator

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Thu Oct 02 2008 - 13:02:31 EST


[Stephen Clark - Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 12:53:37PM -0400]
> Hello List,
>
> Is there a utility that will examine your system and generate a tailored
> config file so I don't have to compile a zillion modules.
>
> Currently when I want to build the latest kernel I take the config file from
> my distro, (fedora), but it has every module in the world. So on my
> 1.8ghz core 2 duo laptop it takes about 30 min to build a new kernel.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
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>
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>
>

You could be interested by this thread

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/16/290

- Cyrill -
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