Re: [TuxOnIce-users] Do other people build TuxOnIce as modul…

I too build TOI as modules, but would happily switch if support were dropped.
I like the flexibility of modules, but can see arguments against them;
fiddling with initrd can be non-trivial, functionality that's critical at
boot time is probably better integrated in the kernel, and patch/dev issues
may not make the complexity worth the trade-off.

But, that being said, I'd appeciate a separate patch to enable modules, if
that's easy to maintain, even if mainline will only build an iintegrated
kernel.

Luigi

On Thursday, 17 July 2008 06:38, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 12:14 +0200, Paolo wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:03:56AM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> >
> > > wondering how many other people build TuxOnIce as modules. Perhaps I can
> >
> > I don't compile TOI as modules usually, though I do so on special cases.
> > Count +1 on 'keep modules support' column - I like the flexibility of
> > the modular approch, at run-time as well as compile time, if that doesn't
> > mean too hassle for the devs, of course.
>
> I've been splitting the monolithic patch into separate parts this
> afternoon for linux-next purposes, and have put the build-as-modules
> stuff into its own patch as part of this (I'm not going to seek to get
> all those EXPORT_SYMBOLs merged). I'll keep it around and continue to
> ship it as part of the monolithic patch.
>
> Regards,
>
> Nigel
>