de-modularising for the win!

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:18:07 -0400
Jon Masters <jcm at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 19:51 -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> 
> > Heh, we come back to this again... Why can't we do a debug/nodebug
> > style split for rawhide's built-in-ness? For release we do what's
> > best for the silent (core sound modules built in, drivers not,
> > since they're pigs.) majority...
> 
> That's a beautifully elegant idea Kyle! Another kernel subpackage that
> remains modular (maybe even more modular too) while the main kernel
> can then be more aggressive about de-modularizing some things.
> 
> FWIW, a couple of us are looking at ways to speed up modprobe.

to be honest, how about applying the patches that already do this and
have been there for 10+ months?



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