On 18 April 2017 at 11:04, Code Soldier1 <codesoldier1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks a lot Greg and Peter. Hello, Top-posting is frowned upon in the Linux Kernel mailing lists. Please use the interleaved style instead, as described in this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Placement_of_replies > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:38:52AM -0700, Code Soldier1 wrote: >>> Hi Greg, >>> >>> No I did not know about 'make localmodconfig'. Can you kindly explain. >> >> Did you look at the help in the kernel makefile: >> >> make help >> will show you what the different options do. >> >> localmodconfig makes a kernel configuration based on your system and the >> modules loaded, which is much smaller than the "full distribution" >> kernel build, for all hardware in the world, which you don't usually >> want for your own development. >> >> There's also a whole book, free online, Linux Kernel in a Nutshell, that >> describes how to configure, build, and boot a custom kernel, that might >> help you out. >> >>> As far as the change is concerned I am planning to change a few things >>> and experiment, so there is nothing specific. >> >> Then experiment away and see how it goes! >> >> good luck, >> >> greg k-h > To add to what Greg said, disabling the staging drivers config option in the .config file speeds up the entire process. To do this, just comment out the CONFIG_STAGING line in that file. > > > -- > CS1 > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies Guru Das Srinagesh. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
