<dropped kernel-maint from cc. That's the default bug assignee, which is somewhat strange to cc> On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 02:41:58AM -0400, Chris Snook wrote: > It also makes it much more difficult to troubleshoot those subsystems or > work around their quirks. I wouldn't have a problem with ext3, jbd, or > dm_* being built-in, but anything that deals with hardware should really > be modular. Of course, that wipes out most of your list. > > I'd really rather focus on optimizing modprobe than sacrificing the many > benefits of modularity for a very small performance boost. There's another reason why usb hcd's were proposed to be built-ins. We may get to use usb-serial for logging boot messages if we do so. (and also build-in the relevant usb-serial modules). given the absense of serial ports on a lot of modern machines, this may prove to be useful. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
