/proc/modules not showing any output

[Praveen Kumar]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 10:05 PM Aruna Hewapathirane
<aruna.hewapathirane at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 11:18 AM Praveen Kumar <kpraveen.lkml at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 9:28 PM Aruna Hewapathirane
>> <aruna.hewapathirane at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >> 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.
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>> >> Regards,
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>> >> ~Praveen.
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>> > 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:
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>> > 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
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>> > Boot into your newly compiled vanilla kernel and run lsmod and smile :-)
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>> > Hope this helps - Aruna
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>> Thanks Aruna. This helps.
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> Glad we could help. I noticed your running Ubuntu ? Since your testing and compiling
> why not give Debian a go ? Ubuntu uses both free and proprietary software while Debian
> uses free software only and with Debian there are zero surprises. Rock solid, Stable and
> is actually lightweight compared to Ubuntu. Good luck.
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> Aruna
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I actually use both deb (Ubuntu) and rpm (Opensuse) both for my dev activity.
And, yes its no harm trying light weight OS. Will try on Debian for
next test VM.
Thanks for your suggestion once again.

Regards,

~Praveen.