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Subject: localmodconfig: document localmodconfig in README
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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: localmodconfig: document localmodconfig in README
Someone (over a year ago :-p) asked me to document localmodconfig in the
README file in the source code. I thought it was a good idea but other
things were more important and I simply forgot about it. Well, I stumbled
on the email asking me about this and I'm sending it out now.
Signed-off-by: Steven "Mr. Procrastinator" Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
README | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff -puN README~localmodconfig-document-localmodconfig-in-readme README
--- a/README~localmodconfig-document-localmodconfig-in-readme
+++ a/README
@@ -206,6 +206,24 @@ CONFIGURING the kernel:
"make randconfig" Create a ./.config file by setting symbol
values to random values.
+ "make localmodconfig" Create a config based on current config and
+ loaded modules (lsmod). Disables any module
+ option that is not needed for the loaded modules.
+
+ To create a localmodconfig for another machine,
+ store the lsmod of that machine into a file
+ and pass it in as a LSMOD parameter.
+
+ target$ lsmod > /tmp/mylsmod
+ target$ scp /tmp/mylsmod host:/tmp
+
+ host$ make LSMOD=/tmp/mylsmod localmodconfig
+
+ The above also works when cross compiling.
+
+ "make localyesconfig" Similar to localmodconfig, except it will convert
+ all module options to built in (=y) options.
+
You can find more information on using the Linux kernel config tools
in Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt.
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
linux-next.patch
localmodconfig-document-localmodconfig-in-readme.patch
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