Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: speed difference between using hard-linked and modular drives? | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 08 Nov 2001 12:53:03 -0500 |
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On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 11:01, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > Are there any speed difference between hard-linked device drivers and > their modular counterparts?
On top of what Ingo said, there is also a slightly larger (very slight) memory footprint due to some of the module code that isn't included in in-kernel components. For example, the __exit functions aren't needed if the driver is not a module.
Robert Love
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