On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 13:22 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
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.
Well, it should be wherever possible :)
Jon.