On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 06:38:57PM +0000, Jethro Beekman wrote: > On 2019-03-26 22:28, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > * Modules allow users to easily disable functionality that they don't use/is > buggy for them/other reasons using blacklisting. This is a valid point. People might want to minimize the uapi when they tailor Linux for certain purposes without having to recompile the kernel (lets say use the stock distro kernel). The motivation would be just to minimize the potential attack surface. I definitely buy this point. > * Modules allow users to customize their functionality without having to > rebuild the entire kernel. Yep. /Jarkko
