[Gllug] Module vs compiled in...

[Stuart Sears]

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On Friday 18 July 2003 2:23 pm, I thought I heard Dylan say 
> Hello All,
>
> I'm currently tinkering with LinuxFromScratch to get a good handle on how
> the system hangs together. Now, on a box with onboard devices (which will
> necessarily not be swapped out, therefore) such as NIC and graphics card,
> what are the opinions on the swings and roundabouts of compiling the
> drivers as modules or compiling them into the kernel?
>
> The way I see it, a NIC and graphics card are effectively in constant use,
> hence the load-on-demand benefits (such as memory usage) simply don't
> apply...
>
> Any comments/thoughts welcomed.
>
> Dylan
>
> --
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> - Billy Bragg
personally I compile everything I am going to be using into the kernel, except 
for two items - video card (i can't, it's NVidia)
- -emu10k1 for my SBlive (similar reasons)
[I've never got on with alsa...]
I find it a lot less hassle than messing around with modules.conf, 
particualrly as I use devfs on the current system
In any case, I know that the hardware in my machine is supported by default 
then - anything and everything I don't use is not compiled at all.
How are you getting on with the LFS, by the way? (I thoroughly recommend the 
lfs and blfs support lists - full of helpful people)
Stuart
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