jeanyves.mig...@free.fr said: > I can't see why MONOLITHIC is needed in the first place
I think before modular kernels are forced onto the masses, at least 2 design problems should be fixed: 1. Autoloading needs to be done differently: The kernel doesn't have the smarts to know which module is needed in which situation, and there is no fine-grained administrative control. I've complained in some other mail about the idiotic behavior in case of exec format loaders. 2. I don't want tons of modules which I'll never need installed into my root file system. As it was common in good old times (tm), my root filesystems are as small as possible. Now, with modules being added to the build, I have to squeeze out stuff after each update to keep some percent free space in /. best regards Matthias ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDirig Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem (Vorsitzender), Dr. Ulrich Krafft (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------