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Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:48:30 +1000
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
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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
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