very common kernel modules slow down the boot process
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Wed Apr 2 04:24:45 UTC 2008
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 04:55:54PM -0700, Andrew Farris wrote:
> Harald Hoyer wrote:
> > Compiling these modules, which are loaded on nearly every PC, in the
> > kernel cuts down my boot time from 42s to 32s on my computer:
>
> > floppy
>
> I was going to suggest you might want to leave that one out, since I wouldn't
> think its that common anymore... then I checked, and this is loaded on my
> machine which has no floppy.
The code to detect if we have a floppy controller lives... in the floppy module.
It's not something that's trivially detectable like pci/usb devices.
Dave
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