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Hi,
Tim Bird wrote:
I am working with a product team on bootup time issues. One technique
that we are forward-porting from an old kernel (and that I thought I
might work on mainlining) is to compile modules statically into the kernel,
but defer their initialization until after boot time.
This may sound like a stupid question, but why are you compiling the
modules statically?
I mean, it sounds to me like the perfect way to do what you want is to
compile the modules dynamically (you can store them in a an in kernel
initramfs if you want to keep them attached to the kernel binary for
ease of maintenance) and simply call a script that calls modprobe when
it's OK to load them?
Sounds a hell of lot simpler to me...
Gilad
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