de-modularising for the win!

[Peter Jones]

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:13:55PM -0700, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>  > See various and sundry plumber's conf discussions.
>  > 
>  > Comments? (The netfilter stuff needs further investigation.)
> 
> looks like some of the lower-hanging fruit.
> definite room for further expansion.
> 
> how well will mkinitrd cope when modules it always loads
> don't exist any more?  any nasty hardcoded bits there?

The biggest issue there will be that we've got a list of stuff that's 
supposed happen before scsi loads... but in reality, I don't think we care.

If you can build me a scratch kernel once we're done deciding what to 
demodularize, fixing mkinitrd afterwards shouldn't be a very difficult task.