[ale] Installation (Module) Cleanup Question

[jmills at bismarck.gtri.gatech.edu (John M. Mills)]

Hello --
I just rebuilt my 2.0.30 kernel in a 'vanilla' RedHat 4.2 installation
(using the kernel source update 'rpm'), and also built a number of unneeded
modules.  At boot, 'rc.sysinit' finds some unresolved module symbols and
issues error messages, plus I get complaints about no response from an non-
existent tape drive.  How can I weed out the module library to those which
I might actually use?  Alternatively, how does 'depmod -a' determine which
modules to register, and how could I weed that patch?  The kernel, and all
modules I actually use, built fine and appear to work.

Thanks -- jmm

John M. Mills, Senior Research Engineer   --   john.m.mills at gtri.gatech.edu
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