de-modularising for the win!

[Chris Snook]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> See various and sundry plumber's conf discussions.

Links please?

> Comments? (The netfilter stuff needs further investigation.)

-CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m
+CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
-CONFIG_SCSI=m
+CONFIG_SCSI=y
-CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m
+CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y
-CONFIG_ATA_PIIX=m
+CONFIG_ATA_PIIX=y
-CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=m
+CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=y
-CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM=m
+CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM=y

If this is going to make it easier to do fancy things in the initrd, I'm all for 
it.  If it's just a TLB thing, I don't think it's worth it.

-CONFIG_MAC80211=m
+CONFIG_MAC80211=y
-CONFIG_IEEE80211=m
+CONFIG_IEEE80211=y

Won't this make it harder for people to test experimental wireless drivers? 
Unless the vendors start opening specs, we're going to have a perpetual need to 
play around in this area with each new hardware rev.

-CONFIG_SND=m
+CONFIG_SND=y
-CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=m
+CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=y
-CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=m
-CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=m
+CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=y
+CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=y
-CONFIG_SND_RTCTIMER=m
+CONFIG_SND_RTCTIMER=y
-CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=m
+CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=y
-CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=m
+CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=y

For the love of god, no.  We have lots of sound problems that require modprobe 
magic to troubleshoot and work around.  This will require people to rebuild 
their kernel just to test sound fixes, which will scare away an awful lot of 
testers and inconvenience the rest.

-CONFIG_EXT3_FS=m
+CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y

I've been wondering for years why we weren't already doing this.

-- Chris