Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:23:13 +0100 (MET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: blacklist kernel boot option
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On Jan 29 2007 13:44, Oliver Neukum wrote:
>Am Montag, 29. Januar 2007 13:40 schrieb Jan Engelhardt:
>> >Is that an real-live issue, with distro kernels being shipped with
>> >almost everything compiled as module these days?
>> 
>> For me it was. FC6 has at least CONFIG_MD=y, and SUSE also has
>> some =y that could be =m with the help of module autoload rules,
>> and some =y that could truly be =m. Those being =y cannot be
>> blacklisted.
>
>What use is it to modularly compile something that almost everybody needs?

[correction: meant CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD, because CONFIG_MD itself does
not generate any code]

So just because almost everyone needs CONFIG_SCSI (SATA, usb_storage,
you name it), you're going to compile that in as well? It's just
another 180 KB [BLK_DEV_MD: ~100K] so let's compile it in!

There is a reason initramfs exists, and it's not only for firmware
loading or running custom scripts.
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