Kernel modules keep being built

Hi,

I am switching from 9.1-p3 to 9-STABLE and I did pretty everything required but what bothers me is that when I wanted to build custom kernel, I used my custom config and then point make in /usr/src to pick it like

make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL

After that and after installing

make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL

it is placed in /boot/kernel and /boot/kernel.old is made.

What I do not understand at all is that I have commented out my custom kernel configuration very heavily in order to get rid of everything I do not care about. All that network and raid modules and so on. But what I see is that every module is built as well and I ended up with exactly the same set of modules as with a GENERIC kernel. What is wrong with that?

I used the configuration as attached.
 

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Almost everything is always built as a module, regardless if it's in the kernel config or not.

Have a look at MODULES_OVERRIDE, NO_MODULES and WITHOUT_MODULES in make.conf(5).
 
To add to that: the kernel configuration file only describes what to build into the monolithic kernel file, /boot/kernel/kernel.
 
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