Re: de-modularising for the win!

2008-10-01 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:10:35 +0200 Thorsten Leemhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The alsa-project is a good example. Say you purchase a new motherboard and it has a brand new audio codec that is not yet supported by the in-kernel drivers. You report that to the alsa-project and they develop

Re: de-modularising for the win!

2008-10-01 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 06:34:18PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:10:35 +0200 Thorsten Leemhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The alsa-project is a good example. Say you purchase a new motherboard and it has a brand new audio codec that is not yet supported by the

Re: de-modularising for the win!

2008-10-01 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:18:07 -0400 Jon Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 19:51 -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote: Heh, we come back to this again... Why can't we do a debug/nodebug style split for rawhide's built-in-ness? For release we do what's best for the silent (core

Re: de-modularising for the win!

2008-10-01 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:18:07 -0400 Jon Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, a couple of us are looking at ways to speed up modprobe. and just to be clear: the boot time cost of modules is only partially because of modprobe speed issues. -- Arjan van de VenIntel Open Source