[RFC] shipping kernels with default modules?

[Doug Barton]

On 6/11/2011 2:21 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Has there been any further thought as of late about shipping kernels
> with modules only by default, rather than monolithic kernels?
>
> I tried this experiment a couple years ago and besides a little
> trickery with ACPI module loading, it worked out fine.
>
> Is there any reason we aren't doing this at the moment? Eg by having a
> default loader modules list populated from the kernel config file?

Has anyone benchmarked monolithic vs. modular? I think that should be 
done before we move in this direction.


Doug

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