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Old 05-16-2006, 11:54 AM   #1
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kernel customization question: modularize whatever I'm not sure of?


Hello all,

At this point, I'm happily running a Slackware -current install that's been giving me very few problems (something that couldn't be said of any of the other distros I've tried). At the moment, I'm working on building a cuztomized kernel specifically for my system. I already have most of my hardware recognized in the configuration, as well as most of the stuff I don't have any need for left out, but I'm running into questions of what to do regarding certain protocol options in the networking subdirectories. At the moment, my rules have been to make anything I'm not sure of as a module and simply leave out anything that is still flagged as experimental, but I want to trim things down as much as I possibly can. I have no need to run a server or router on my home desktop, so I think it's ok to forget about options like that, but I'm just not sure of what I might or might not need. I've done some googling on kernel compilation ad configuration, but most of the HOWTOs and guides out there tend to be very very general. Can someone recommend some good literature for learning how to optimize the kernel for a specific system? Any other advice would be very welcome as well.

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Old 05-16-2006, 12:13 PM   #2
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Usually modules aren't loaded if they are not needed, so you can "modularize" a lot.
 
Old 05-16-2006, 02:09 PM   #3
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Ab-so-lutely. Anything you don't know about for sure, go ahead and slap in as a module. That way if the kernel decides it needs it, it can go ahead and load it.

Note: This works even better with 2.6.x kernels than it did with 2.4.x kernels. My modules.conf/modprobe.conf has remained blissfully empty since I moved up to 2.6.x. (Of course I have no ISA devices at all now--PCI and USB devices are infinitely detectable by hotplug/udev.)
 
  


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