built-in USB drivers

[Philippe Carriere]

Hi,

since Fedora 10, USB drivers (more precisely, ehci-hcd for which a patch
is required to be snd-ubs-us112l - alsa-1.0.18 - compatible) are
"built-in" in the official kernel package.
For previous releases (F9), USB drivers always were modules, with the
advantage that providing a patched module (using kmod rpmfusion
framework) just required, after installing the kmod rpms, to
disable/enable the module.

I do not know the motivation of Fedora developers for choosing built-in
rather than module in the pre-compilation configuration: is
it indeed unavoidable ? Or does it exist a fairly simple way (I found
nothing like this in documentations) to disable a built-in driver so as
to replace it by a module, avoiding lengthy kernel compilation for just
a few modified lines ?

Regards

Phil.

Philippe Carrière <la-page-web-of-phil.contact at orange.fr>


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