Re: remove unwanted modules

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 12:24:06AM -0500, Marc DM wrote:
> Stupid questions :
> 
> How can I find out which modules my system actually needs and disable 
> the ones I don't need.
> 
> How can I know if a module I'm disabling at startup isn't needed for 
> another module that I plan to load?
> 
> Thanks. And I won't ask anymore stupid questions for the rest of the week.

You can check the use count from lsmod:

Module                  Size  Used by
nls_utf8                2432  0
it87                   29472  0
i2c_sensor              3712  1 it87
i2c_isa                 2688  0
i2c_dev                12288  0
powernow_k8            11088  0
freq_table              5192  1 powernow_k8
                              ^ This column

If the count is 0, it means the module is not being used, either because
the device it supplies isn't currently being used, or because you don't
need it.


Hamish
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