Re: de-modularising for the win!

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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.


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