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From:   Praveen Kumar <kpraveen.lkml@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 19 Dec 2018 21:47:46 +0530
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Subject: Re: /proc/modules not showing any output
To:     Aruna Hewapathirane <aruna.hewapathirane@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 9:28 PM Aruna Hewapathirane
<aruna.hewapathirane@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>>
>> I think, on my test machine, by default, there are many modules which
>> get added during boot up, which with vanilla kernel is not happening.
>> Thanks for your input.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> ~Praveen.
>>
>
> What does lsmod show you in the vanilla kernel ? If you want the same modules to load in the vanilla
> kernel folow steps given below:
>
> 1 -boot into the older 4.4.162-78-defaultkernel
> 2 - change into the vanilla kernel source 4.20.0-rc6 builddirectory
> 3 - $ lsmod > lsmod.txt
> 4 - $ make LSMOD="lsmod.txt" localmodconfig
>
> Boot into your newly compiled vanilla kernel and run lsmod and smile :-)
>
> Hope this helps - Aruna
>
Thanks Aruna. This helps.