On 07/13/2012 07:29 AM, Aft nix wrote: > Hi, > > I'm developing kernel modules right now, and the build times are > starting to get under my skin. As a side effect i'm taking way too > many "coffee" breaks during builds. > > So i was looking for a way to build only the stuffs i need for my > platform. Chapter 7 and 8 of "linux kernel in a nutshell" gave a good > detail of how to do that by hand. Its a good read : > http://www.kroah.com/lkn/ > > But Although i understand the stuffs, this is still a lot of tweaks to > make that work. > > 2.6.32 and later kernels added a new target "make localmodconfig". > which scans through "lsmod" and change the .config appropriately. So i > thought i found my "automation". But this perl script has some problem > too. > > This thread describes the problems : > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=845113 > > There was also a proposed solution which apparently worked for others > , is to run the script directly instead of using make's target. > > Although for me, make localmodconfig does not work at all. its because > of the following : > > $make clean > $make mrproper > $cp /boo/config-'uname -r' .config > $make localmodconfig > > and it haults with > > vboxguest config not found!! > nf_defrag_ipv6 config not found!! > vboxsf config not found!! > vboxvideo config not found!! > > The thing is my kernel development environment is inside virtualbox. > These vbox modules were installed when i chose to install "virtualbox > guest addtion". > > And the netfilter module might be a Distribution specific module(Lot > of netfilter modules are not part of the mainline kernel, so its not a > shock to me), which is not included in mainline kernel. > > Now the workaround this obviously unloading these module and trying > again. But I'm thinking if there is patch for the > "streamline_config.pl" which will enable the user to exclude certain > modules if s/he wants. Problem is i have "zero" knowledge about perl > and i like it that way. > > So my problems in "nutshell" > > 1) Patching streamline_config.pl so i can give a list of module name > as argument which it will exclude from processing the config file. > > 2) I've tried to run the script by myself. But running it directly > fails with a error. > > [root@kernel-host-rh6 linux-2.6]# sh scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl > scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl: line 45: my: command not found > scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl: line 47: my: command not found > scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl: line 48: chomp: command not found > scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl: line 50: syntax error near > unexpected token `(' > scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl: line 50: `my @searchconfigs = (' > > Again my "zero" knowledge about perl does not helping my case. > > Additional info: > > I have faced the same thing in 2.6.32, 2.6.33, 2.6.35, 3.4, 3.4.rc1 > .....(I constantly switch version for various reasons, everywhere the > problem is same) > > You can access the script from kernel.org gitweb: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=blob;f=scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl;h=bccf07ddd0b67a0e2f761fd5721f274a49bf9bbb;hb=HEAD > > Its from 3.4.0. `git log --stat scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl` > shows some activity recently on this file. But my problem persists. > > 3) Is there any way i can get the "Centos specific" patches in "plain > patch" format? That means i dont wanna do things in src-rpm way. > If the patches are available in normal patch format i can keep > everything tidy in my kernel git tree. What are you doing to the kernel that we are not doing in the CentOSPlus kernel?
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