On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 10:32:55AM +0800, Pei Lin wrote: > As the newbie, look at here, suddenly one thought rush in my brain. > After twenty years development, the kernel became bigger and bigger. > The cost time for building the kernel becomes much more. Sure, more code that does more and more complex compilers means more time to build the code. > If someone writes one new feature in kernel core, he maybe wants to > load the component directly into running kernel instead of rebuild the > kernel and reboot it. > Could the kernel support all components reloadable dynamically in core > as scheduler, memory management etc? We support modules already, just not for some core things, so you can do this today. > Now the driver subsystem is modularity, could kernel make everything > modularity and all things be hotplugged? Everything that can be physically hotplugged can be with Linux (i.e. hardware). We don't want to have different schedulers, but we do have different i/o schedulers already that can be changed dynamically. The mm core does not make any sense to be a module though. Hope this helps, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
