"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote: > >> On my RHEL boxes, I do never ever recompile the kernel since Red Hat >> does not provide support if I do so :) > > Is everything 'loadable modules' then? I can't imagine you have some > mammoth kernel running on your system, do you? with every conceivable > piece of hardware configured in?
Yes, vendor kernels are very modular--most drivers, packet filtering, scsi etc are all loadable modules. You can of course build your own kernel with only the drivers you need built-in, but it usually doesn't make very much difference. The module system works, in general, extremely well. -Doug ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly