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Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 12:03:45 +0200
From: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] disable built-in modules V2
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On Apr 9, 2005 11:48 AM, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 11:43:59AM +0200, Magnus Damm wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> 
> Perhaps they should start using initramfs then.

But how does that help me? I still want to be able to pass a list of
unwanted modules on the kernel command line. Using initramfs and
modules is fine, although I would prefer being able to unload built-in
modules instead - but that is another story. Your suggestion just
pushes the problem to user space. I think the best alternative would
be a combination of kernel-space code (my patch) and awareness of the
command line in the module loader running from initramfs/rootfs.

/ magnus
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