On 19 Aug 2013 19:40, "Ian Pilcher" <arequipeno@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 08/19/2013 01:19 PM, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> > 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.
>
> A couple of questions:
>
> - What are the advantages of having the driver built-in, as compared to
> simply ensuring that it's always included in the initramfs?
Easy support for the most commonly used options, things like the IP and the Intel sata driver are built in as well for similar means.
Ultimately if there's missing features you should communicate with the author of the patch as to why they're not upstream and then you'd not have to care about whether its built in or a module.
> - Was this change discussed anywhere?
Probably on the kernel list if anywhere, I vaguely remember reading about it.
Peter
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