Subject: Re: GENERIC is absurdly big
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
From: Michal Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/21/2003 12:48:56
Wojciech Puchar [Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 10:19:35AM +0100]:
> then you have to build your own kernel. and that's right way to do - not
> having 1000 of modules like in Redhat linux where most "administrators"
> never built their own kernel.
I think, that the way of thinking "I built my own kernel, therefore I'm
l337" is very funny.
Having 1000 modules not only makes the kernel smaller, it reduces the need
for reboots and allows hardware vendors to distribute their own ones (aka
"drivers").
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mp