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Steven Rostedt committed d4bb58b5cb3
localmodconfig: Check if configs are already set for selects There are some cases that a required module does not have a prompt and needs to have another module enabled that selects it to be set. As localmodconfig is conservative and tries to make the minimum config without breaking the user's kernel, or keeping the user from using devices that were loaded when the lsmod was done, all modules that select this module will also be enabled. If you needed module A, but module A did not have a prompt but needed module B to be selected, localmodconfig would make sure B was still enabled. If not only B selected A, but C, D, E, F, and G also selected A, then all of those would also be included, as well as the modules they depend on. This ballooned the number of configs that localmodconfig would keep. The fix here is to process the depends first, and then record those configs that did not have a prompt and needed to be selected. After the depends are done, check what configs are needed to select the configs in the list, and if a config that selects it is already set, then we don't need to do anything else. If no config that selects the config is set, then just pick one and try again. This change brought down the number of selected modules from 290 to 67! Both before and after were run against a config that had 3095 modules enabled. Tested-by: John David Yost <johnyost@ptd.net> # AlleyTrotter Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>