very common kernel modules slow down the boot process

[Dave Jones]

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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