On Sat, 26 Dec 2015 10:39:04 -0500, "Robert P. J. Day" said: > if i start with the latest git kernel repo, it *looks* like i can > use the /boot/config-4.2.8-200.fc22.x86_64 config file as a starting > point, copy it in as .config, then: > > $ make allmodconfig > $ make localmodconfig How much simpler could you make it? :) The place you're most likely to screw it up is to forget to plug in all your USB and other widgets at least once before the 'make localmodconfig' to make sure they get modprobed. As a practical matter, if 'make allmodconfig' had slightly different semantics, we could do better. 'allmod' has semantics of 'turn on every possible =m'. If there were a semantic of 'convert as many existing =y into =m, but *don't* convert =n into =m', we could do this and it would almost certainly be faster. boot distro kernel (plug in widgets) make localmodconfig boot into that kernel make mostlymodconfig boot plug in widgets make localmodconfig *again* The reason it would be faster - a Fedora Rawhide kernel has 2,793 =m, a 'allmodconfig' has 5,162 - but doing a 'localmodconfig' gets it down to 33 on my laptop (though admittedly I've made a lot of device drivers =y so they're part of vmlinux - but /sys/module tells me there's a max of 133 or so of those). So after the first 'localmodconfig', you've gotten rid of probably 75% to 90% of the modules to build, and thus build time. It's probably faster to do 3 builds like this than an allmod/mostlymod pair. Note that if you're *really* concerned about vmlinux size (like embedded devices), you'll want to make a second pass through all the =y, and see how many are system features you don't need, but which can't be modular. Things like SYSV shared memory and IPC, BSD process accounting, and so on... I wonder if adding a 'mostlymodconfig' to Kconfig would be worthwhile. Comments?
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