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On Fri, 2004-Jul-23 20:50:01 -0700, Jake Hamby wrote:
>My biggest annoyance with building the kernel, compared to Linux, is 
>that it insists on building all of the possible kernel modules, even 
>though I only want to build the ones that make sense for my hardware. 

I think you want the following:

# MODULES_OVERRIDE can be used to limit modules built to a specific list.
...
#makeoptions MODULES_OVERRIDE="linux sound/snd sound/pcm sound/driver/maestro3"

Peter