From: David Ford <david@linux.com>
To: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 02:46:32 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A17AF88.F1319C2C@linux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001117013157.A21329@almesberger.net> <slrn91b42n.fs.kraxel@bogomips.masq.in-berlin.de> <20001118141426.B23033@almesberger.net> <slrn91f3hr.jt.kraxel@bogomips.masq.in-berlin.de>
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Gerd Knorr wrote:
> Why? What is the point in compiling bttv statically into the kernel?
> Unlike filesystems/ide/scsi/... you don't need it to get the box up.
> No problem to compile the driver as module and configure it with
> /etc/modules.conf ...
Huh?
Some systems are built without module support for numerous reasons. I don't
need 50% of the entire kernel to get the box up, but I surely use it and I
don't want 100 modules loaded. There is an introduced security weakness by
using kernels. There are module races. There are ...
So..what is the point in making it modular? ..if it's in use the entire time
the machine is booted?
-d
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-11-19 11:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-17 0:31 BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5 Werner Almesberger
2000-11-17 20:08 ` Gerd Knorr
2000-11-18 13:14 ` Werner Almesberger
2000-11-19 8:24 ` Gerd Knorr
2000-11-19 10:46 ` David Ford [this message]
2000-11-19 12:56 ` Gerd Knorr
2000-11-19 13:49 ` Keith Owens
2000-11-19 19:03 ` Gerd Knorr
2000-11-19 21:45 ` Keith Owens
2000-11-19 15:16 ` David Lang
2000-11-19 14:49 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-19 15:11 ` Dan Hollis
2000-11-19 15:08 ` Christer Weinigel
2000-11-19 15:45 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-19 15:54 ` Dan Hollis
2000-11-19 21:08 ` Ben Ford
2000-11-19 15:50 ` Dan Hollis
2000-11-19 16:53 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-19 20:53 ` Rogier Wolff
2000-11-20 3:22 ` Dan Hollis
2000-11-20 1:16 ` David Woodhouse
2000-11-20 3:00 ` Dan Hollis
2000-11-20 15:47 ` Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
2000-11-19 16:21 ` David Ford
2000-11-19 21:06 ` Ben Ford
2000-11-19 14:49 ` Keith Owens
2000-11-19 17:36 ` Gerd Knorr
2000-11-19 16:02 ` David Ford
2000-11-20 10:22 ` [PATCH] " Richard Guenther
2000-11-20 2:14 ` [PATCH] bttv_card & bttv_radio (was Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5) Werner Almesberger
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2000-11-20 4:39 BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5 Wayne.Brown
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