linux-kernel - Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

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Message-ID: <47151FAA.2070603@debian.org>
Date:	Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:31:38 +0200
From:	Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@...ian.org>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
CC:	Mark Gross <mgross@...ux.intel.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Oct 16 2007 13:06, Mark Gross wrote:
>> base function:
>> Starting from a stock distro (FC, Ubuntu, OpenSuSE...) and put down a
>> kernel.org tree and automatically create a .config with all the drivers
>> needed for the platform I'm building on.
> 
> Too easy. Since opensuse's udev loads most of the modules for your hardware,
> all that would be needed is to transform the lsmod list of modules plus
> the static options in /proc/config.gz (stuff like psmouse) back
> into kconfig options ;-)

but than you miss the UBS devices that you eventually plug in.

Anyway, in attachment I send:
a python script that will create the "mod" file.  Call it with
one argument: the kernel source directory.

The second file "mod" is the output: it lists module with
proper dependencies.

BTW I'm restoring the autoconfiguration (but more hackerish
that the old tante versions ;-) )

ciao
	cate

View attachment "mod" of type "text/plain" (216561 bytes)

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