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After reading about the amazing 5-seconds bootup I decided to once again compile a kernel myself. Compiling a kernel is almost trivial these days, but customizing the configuration can still be quite confusing. For example, the names of the modules in lsmod aren’t the ones you select as config options. To map them, I found some scripts in the LQWiki, but they weren’t that easily to use, and also programming in bash is just painful.

So i wrote a python variant, that takes an input config(for example your distributions config) and changes the reply to “y” for all config options if the respective module is loaded(ie. if ext3 is loaded, CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y will be set).