de-modularising for the win!

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 04:09:57PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote:

> I advocate extreme caution before just willy-nilly building everything
> into the kernel. Although this might seem like a great idea from the
> point of view of speeding up boot, there is also the pesky issue of
> users wanting the choice to decide which modules get loaded, and more
> importantly, wanting to override those modules with their own. To do
> this truly "right" we'll need to do rebinding of drivers in kernel.
> That's not always going to be easily possible after it's in use.

Linux is not about choice.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org