On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:18:07 -0400 Jon Masters jcm@redhat.com wrote:
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 19:51 -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
Heh, we come back to this again... Why can't we do a debug/nodebug style split for rawhide's built-in-ness? For release we do what's best for the silent (core sound modules built in, drivers not, since they're pigs.) majority...
That's a beautifully elegant idea Kyle! Another kernel subpackage that remains modular (maybe even more modular too) while the main kernel can then be more aggressive about de-modularizing some things.
FWIW, a couple of us are looking at ways to speed up modprobe.
to be honest, how about applying the patches that already do this and have been there for 10+ months?