Re: Why is AHCI built-in?

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On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 01:16:03PM -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> Somewhere along the line, the AHCI driver was changed from a module to
> being built-in to the kernel.  This is a major PITA for anyone who wants
> to use a different/customized version of this driver.  (I want to
> rebuild it with LED triggers for the disk LEDs on my NAS.)
> 
> I haven't been able to find anything in git or BZ about why this was
> done, probably because searching on "ahci" and "module" in Bugzilla
> isn't exactly productive.
> 

because it's commonly used and found on basically every machine now.
there are many advantages to having it built in that outweigh the cons.

--kyle
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