Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Apr 2005 11:43:59 +0200 | From | Magnus Damm <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] disable built-in modules V2 |
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On Apr 9, 2005 3:42 AM, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote: > Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Say a kernel shipped with your favourite distribution crashes your > > machine during boot-up - wouldn't it be nice to be able to just > > disable the problematic module from the kernel command line instead of > > Perhaps your favourite distribution could build that as a module to > start with.
Right. Today distributions can boot from external usb-storage devices, maybe even from firewire hardware as I am sure you know. I guess they have support for a device built-in for a reason. I think most distributions have as streamlined kernels as possible with much code built as modules - but they would still need some code built-in in the kernel to have a generic kernel that supports a lot of block devices. So I think my patch still have a value.
In my case a firewire phy is broken - and, yes - I should fix my hardware instead of moaning about it here...
Thanks,
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