Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 5 Jan 2001 22:50:20 -0600 | From | Evan Thompson <> | Subject | The advantage of modules? |
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I'd like to know (I know, I'm being slightly off topic, while still staying on topic, so I'm on topic...er...yes) if there is any advantage, be it memory-wise or architectuarally wise, to use modules?
I already know the obvious points of if you are creating a distro that it is usually good to make a very modular kernel for those wishing not to recompile their kernel, but I was wondering if there were any other advantages to using modules vs. making a monolithic kernel for a kernel to be used only on one machine (with no other hardware support at all)?
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