Subject: Re: LKMs (was Re: IPSEC in GENERIC)
To: Steven M.Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/20/2006 15:39:00
On Feb 20, 2006, at 7:33 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> I'm with you. I've been hacking kernels (or the equivalent) since
> 1967.
> I'd much rather have LKMs. If I were king, I'd decree that *all*
> device drivers must be loadable, and *all* device drivers should be
> dynamically loaded except for those that are necessary to boot the
> system and read in new device drivers.
Yah, I'm pretty much in that camp, too.
-- thorpej