On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 05:13:58PM +0100, Matthias Drochner wrote: > 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 /.
Have you measured how much modules supposedly increase the size compared to compiling things directly to the kernel? This seems like a rather silly point to me (without numbers, at least). - Jukka.