Re: [PATCH][RFC] disable built-in modules V2

[Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>]

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,

/ magnus