revisit: turning some of the "always used" modules to built-in

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:44:31 -0700 (PDT)
Roland McGrath <roland at redhat.com> wrote:

> > 1) Built-in code is easier to debug/diagnose. This may sound weird,
> > but really, things inside the vmlinux allow for much better
> > automated bug diagnostics/analysis.
> >    ( and the www.kerneloops.org site uses these, but can only do
> > the more advanced automatic analysis on the built-in oopses)
> 
> Can you point me to the details of this issue?
> 

very simply put:

it's between getting this level of information:

http://www.kerneloops.org/raw.php?rawid=32356

with pointing at the exact code, and only getting this

http://www.kerneloops.org/raw.php?rawid=32287



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