Best regards sherif.

kernel, drivers/video/console, bitblit
./linux-2.6.24/drivers/video/console/Makefile

You’ll see that sometimes there is more than one object on the line:

obj-$(CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE) += fbcon.o bitblit.o font.o softcursor.o

To account for this you need to re-write your match pattern to allow anything between the += and the object file name:

m=re.search(r”obj-\$\((?P[A-Z0-9_]*)\)\W*\+=.*”+moduleprops.group(‘file’)+r”\.o”,cont);

At least that’s what I did in Perl and I assume it should work in python too.

Another interesting thing I noticed is that there can be either a many to one or one to many relationship between modules and config options. For instance CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE causes four different modules to be built whereas the drivers/cdrom/cdrom.o object has 5 different config option which all turn it on.

I’m trying to see now if there is a way to automate lum configuration, although I have the feeling that one may have to be done by hand.

if you’d want to have more than one kernel source dir, you could try nesting try…except (i think that is not the right way to do it, but i’m not that familiar with python myself), ie. something like:

sourcedir2=…
try:
f=open(options.sourcedir + moduleprops.group(‘path’) + ‘Makefile’ , ‘r’);
except IOError:
try:
f=open(sourcedir2 + moduleprops.group(‘path’) + ‘Makefile’ ,
except IOError:
stderr.write(‘Could not find Makefile for ‘ + modname + ‘\n’);
continue

take care of proper whitespacing

As to the format of the two config files, i have no idea, maybe you can just cat them together or so for an input file, and then use the resulting file for both. or use /boot/config-2.6.XX-YY-generic as an input config.

note that you can also compile vanilla kernels the usual way in ubuntu, works fine (no support though, but afaik also not with self-compiled ubuntu kernels)

Something that hasn’t been clear to me is if lsmod lists all modules regardless of whether they’re compiled into the kernel or compiled as loadable modules or just lists loadable modules.

Second question: Ubuntu splits it modules ( I don’t know why ) between the kernel and the lum ( linux-ubuntu-modules ) package such that most of my modules as reported by modinfo are in:

/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/

but some such as the ALSA sound subsystem are in:

/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/ubuntu/

which each correspond to the kernel and lum packages respectively.

I store my source and configs for these two packages in

~/kernel-source/linux-2.6.24/.config
~/kernel-source/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-2.6.24/.config

If I wanted to modify your script to work with this setup what would I need to do? I’m used to perl and don’t know the first thing about python.

I’m sorry, noticed that bug a while ago, but somehow forgot to update the script here :/

facu@facu-ubunchu:~/Escritorio$ ./customconfig.py -i /boot/config-2.6.28-11-generic -o .config
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “./customconfig.py”, line 61, in
f=open(options.sourcedir + moduleprops.group(‘path’) + ‘Makefile’ , ‘r’);
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘./fs/isofs/Makefile’