On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 07:59:31PM -0700, Peter Hessler wrote: > Removing device drivers may speed the boot process on your system, but > can complicate recovery should you have a hardware problem, and is > very often done wrong. > Removing device drivers <i>will not</i> make your system run faster by > any noticeable amount, though can produce a smaller kernel. > Removing debugging and error checking can result in a measurable > performance gain, but will make it impossible to troubleshoot a system > if something goes wrong.
You almost never need to remove device drivers from the kernel, since you can use boot -c and config -c to temporarily disable them, without needing to recompile anything.
