Stop building all those kernel modules

[Roland Smith]

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 05:32:50PM -0700, Luke Dean wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to use nanobsd to build a small kernel for an embedded system on 
> FreeBSD 7.
> 
> In previous versions, I could modify GENERIC by just commenting out all the 
> devices and options that I wasn't interested in, and buildkernel 
> KERNCONF=myconf would happily ignore all the things I wasn't interested in.
> 
> This no longer works.  Now everything gets built, even things that are 
> broken/incompatible with other options I've chosen.
> 
> I've tried setting NO_MODULES=YES, but the modules were still built.
> I see documentation for WITHOUT_MODULES, but it wants me to list every 
> module I don't want to build?  Come on!  There must be a better way...

Put the following in you kernel config:

makeoptions     MODULES_OVERRIDE=""

This will prevent the building of all modules. So you will only get the
devices built into the kernel. If you do wnat something to be built as a
module, put it between the quotation marks, e.g. MODULES_OVERRIDE="wlan ral".

Roland
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