lsmod

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Sunday 09 December 2007, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Bob Hemus wrote:
> > O.K. I'm ready to catch hell for my igernuts!  When I run "lsmod" (using
> > Ubuntu 7.04) I get a list a mile long.  I know I should remove some of
> > 'em, but not sure, exactly which ones?
>
> I think you would need to recompile your kernel, reconfiguring it not to
> load what you don't need. Not for the faint of heart.

IINM, those are all modules that are loaded, mostly dynamically.  Linux has 
become quite the plug-n-driver system.  To get most of them to *not* load you 
have to play around with blacklists.  

$ man modprobe.conf


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