When KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG is used with "make allmodconfig", the result ends up being largely the same as "make allyesconfig", because the resulting kernel ends up with CONFIG_MODULES=n: How to reproduce: : tazenda 125 ; make O=../o.test allmodconfig GEN /home/hpa/kernel/o.test/Makefile scripts/kconfig/conf --allmodconfig Kconfig # # configuration written to .config # : tazenda 126 ; grep CONFIG_MODULES ../o.test/.config CONFIG_MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA=y CONFIG_MODULES=y : tazenda 127 ; env KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=/dev/null make O=../o.test allmodconfig GEN /home/hpa/kernel/o.test/Makefile scripts/kconfig/conf --allmodconfig Kconfig # # configuration written to .config # : tazenda 128 ; grep CONFIG_MODULES ../o.test/.config CONFIG_MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA=y # CONFIG_MODULES is not set -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html