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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Hardwired drivers are going away? 
In-Reply-To: Message from Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au> 
   of "Sun, 20 Jan 2002 17:30:12 PST." <3C4B6F24.C2750F51@zip.com.au> 
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:34:07 +0100
From: Horst von Brand <brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
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Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au> said:
> "Mr. James W. Laferriere" wrote:
> >         This is just what the Heads are trying to do away with .  There
> >         will only be module enabled kernels .  JimL

> I suspect none of these "Heads" spend much time in protracted
> email debug sessions.  Because the *first* thing you do is
> ask the tester to compile the relevant driver into the
> kernel.
> 
> The problems which the removal of this option will cause include:
> 
> 1: Inability to look up symbols in the kernel elf image.

ksymoops(8) is able to find them...

> 2: Breaks the kernel profiler

Which one?

> 3: breaks kgdb

Officially not wanted by the heads, so irrelevant

> 4: breaks ksymoops.

How so?
-- 
Horst von Brand			     http://counter.li.org # 22616
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