Re: Hardwired drivers are going away?

Horst von Brand
2002-01-21T09:34:37Z

Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au> said:
> "Mr. James W. Laferriere" wrote:
> > This is just what the Heads are trying to do away with . There
> > will only be module enabled kernels . JimL

> I suspect none of these "Heads" spend much time in protracted
> email debug sessions. Because the *first* thing you do is
> ask the tester to compile the relevant driver into the
> kernel.
>
> The problems which the removal of this option will cause include:
>
> 1: Inability to look up symbols in the kernel elf image.

ksymoops(8) is able to find them...

> 2: Breaks the kernel profiler

Which one?

> 3: breaks kgdb

Officially not wanted by the heads, so irrelevant

> 4: breaks ksymoops.

How so?
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