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    kconfig: add streamline_config.pl to scripts · dcc60243
    Steven Rostedt authored
    streamline_config.pl is a very powerful tool. For those that install
    a kernel to a new box using the config file from the distribution know that
    it can take forever to compile the kernel.
    
    Making a custom config file that will still boot your box, but bring
    down the compile time of the kernel can be quit painful, and to ask
    someone that reported a bug to do this can be a large burdon since that
    person may not even know how to build a kernel.
    
    This script will perform "lsmod" to find all the modules loaded on the
    current running system. It will read all the Makefiles to map which
    CONFIG enables a module. It will read the Kconfig files to find the
    dependencies and selects that may be needed to support a CONFIG.
    Finally, it reads the .config file and removes any module "=m" that is
    not needed to enable the currently loaded modules. The output goes to
    standard out.
    
    Here's a way to run the script. From the Linux directory that holds
    a distribution .config.
    
     $ scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl arch/x86/Kconfig > config-sl
     $ mv .config config-save
     $ mv config-sl .config
     $ make oldconfig
    
    Now you have a .config that will still build all your modules, but also
    take much less time to build the kernel.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    dcc60243
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