How To Shrink Kernel ?

[lovelylinux]

Hi to all,
I want to ask one question ...
Right now I am working on Kernel Module Programming and Learning.
I want to shrink Kernel, means a Kernel with having minimum services and size.
For example, I do not want printing service in my kernel ...
Another example is say I do not want /proc filesystem module in my kernel ...
So my problem is how to modify the Kernel and how to make it running after modifying.
I am also googling in this regard but any good suggestion in this regard is appreciated.
Thanking in Advance ....
Waiting for Good Response ...

[aliov]

you modify the configuration of your kernel to minimize it, in the kernel source trees run make menuconfig and disable all what you want.
after you run make bzImage , make modules , make modules_install, you copy the bzImage to /boot and configure grub/lilo to boot it , not sure it'll boot , probably you'll have a kernel panic due to lack of configuration but in principle you have to configure the kernel to include and built in the ext2 and your filesytem .
<*> means built in the kernel will load the specified option if needed
<M> as modules will be installed in /lib/modules/$(uname -r) and this modules in general should be loaded manually .

i spend a lot of time to optimize the kernel to run my machine , but in the device driver i enable everything related to usb in order to let udev and HAL runs properly.

a trick also can be used to load the required modules at the boot time by using the initial ram device .

Hope this help.

Regards.