Advantages of trimmed kernel?

[Erik Trulsson]

On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 09:05:25AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> Are there any real advantages to building a kernel stripped of unused drivers, 
> especially when running it on a fairly large machine?  For years, I've been 
> dutifully removing device drivers (or more recently, including GENERIC and 
> using 'nodevice') for everything I don't have.  But does this actually do 
> anything useful, or am I just tilting at windmills?

It will save a little bit of memory and diskspace and the machine will
probably boot slightly faster since it will not need to probe for
non-existing devices, but other than that I doubt it will make any
difference at all.



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