[Preston] Building Modular Kernels

[Andrew King]

Hi there,

If you have plenty of memory (eg 128MB+), is there any point in having a 
modular kernel over just compiling everything straight in?  I know that 
modules allow memory to be saved when those parts of the kernel aren't 
needed, but isn't that just as in saving a bit of kernel code from being 
loaded, which is surely just a couple of megs at the most?  I'm planning 
on just switching back to compiling everything straight in for a while 
in the interests of making life easier, but just wondering if there's 
any major reason that we're supposed to use modules for that I've forgot.

Kernel 2.6 has gone okay... have got alsa working, and a couple of other 
things, but noticed no performance increase (that's with pre-emptible 
kernel enabled) - but no loss either.

Thanks,

Andrew