Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:48:30 +1000 | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: Rusty's module talk at the Kernel Summit |
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On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 10:24:11 -0700 "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com> wrote: > The system that I am composing this email on has 1.1MB of > modules and does not have sound drivers loaded. It has ipv4 and a > number of other facilities modularized that are not modules in the > stock kernels. Every system that I use has a configuration like this. > With a lower per-module overhead, I would be more inclined to try to > modularize other facilities and break up some larger modules into > smaller ones, in the case where there is substantial code that is not > needed for some configurations.
For God's sake, WHY? Look at what you're doing to your TLB (and if you made IPv4 a removable module, I'll bet real money you have a bug unless you are *very* *very* clever).
Modules are not "free". Sorry. Rusty. -- there are those who do and those who hang on and you don't see too many doers quoting their contemporaries. -- Larry McVoy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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