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Subject: Re: a couple quick kernel questions
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2009/5/24 Simon Holm Thøgersen <odie@cs.aau.dk>:
> lør, 23 05 2009 kl. 17:14 -0600, skrev Tyler Littlefield:
>> Hello all,
>> My name is tyler; I'm new to the list, and new to kernel development.
>> I'd like to find a way I can help out, though I don't have huge servers or a
>> bunch of hardware to build and test drivers on.
>> Is there a position somewhere where I can learn, and contribute something?
>>
>> Also, my kernel modules is about 75 mb. I'm trying to figure out if there's
>> a place that describes all the config options so I can easily go through and
>> choose what I want. 75 mb isn't bad, but I'd rather not be using the extra
>> overhead, especially if I don't need it.
>
> Use make menuconfig or make config and read the help text for the
> various options.

You might want to speed up the process with this script:

http://rostedt.homelinux.com/code/streamline_config.pl