Kernel configuration

Joshua Lokken joshua at twobirds.us
Fri Mar 26 11:04:01 PST 2004


* Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> [2004-03-26 10:56]:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 08:20:42PM +0200, Toni Heinonen wrote:
> > 
> > I didn't give options NFSCLIENT or NFSSERVER yet it seems to have compiled support. What gives?
> 
> What you don't compile into your kernel (by eg. 'options NFSCLIENT')
> will generally be compiled as a loadable module instead -- here
> nfsclient.ko
 

I've wondered about this -- is that the significance of the 

NO_MODULES parameter in make.conf?  IOW, if one was to specify
no_modules, would that build only the kernel modules that were
specified in the conf?


-- 
Joshua

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