8 to 9: Kernel modularization -- did it change?

[Doug Barton]

On 02/20/2012 06:44, Tom Evans wrote:

> wrt to sound drivers no longer being built as modules, I wonder why
> this change has been made. I don't recall a mass of people complaining
> that they couldn't load drivers, 

Then you haven't been paying attention. :)

> Whatever happened to POLA? This change surprised me, wasn't mentioned
> in /usr/src/UPDATING, 

You're supposed to compare your existing kernel config to the new
GENERIC every time you do a major version upgrade. That would have made
the change quite obvious.


Doug

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