lsmod

[Bob Hemus]

On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 15:52 -0500, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> 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
> 
Thanks, I'll give it a read.
Bob