Re: Toshiba support in the kernel.

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On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 16:24:56 +0200
Heinz Diehl <htd+ml@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 30.06.2015, stan wrote: 
> 
> > That's the hard part of compiling a custom kernel; eliminating all
> > the irrelevant modules and functionality.  I've looked, and there
> > doesn't seem to be a program that scans the system, and only turns
> > on hardware modules for the system scanned.
> 
> "make localmodconfig" is what you're after. Be aware that
> localmodconfig does exactly what you want. So if you e.g. don't have
> connected a device containing an ext4 filesystem at the moment you
> issue the command, ext4 support won't be in your new kernel.
> 
Whoa!  Thank you!  This could be a game changer.  Yeah, it's a little
risky, but my system is very stable, and I only compile kernels when
everything is attached and running smoothly.

I'm surprised this wasn't mentioned in the build instructions at
kernel.org.  Or maybe I just missed it.  

Now I've got to rush off and compile a new kernel.  :-)
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