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Subject: Re: Modularity vs overhead [cvs commit: src/lkm/gnufpu Makefile] 
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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 13:50:56 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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> Poul>	It is a necessary step to get the kernel even more modular.
> 
> Yes, but will that gain real functionality / performance, besides getting
> more-pleasntly-to-look-at sources? If I wanted a really fashionable
> modular self configuring plaug and play kernel, I would more probably
> go to Solaris or Bill Gates or whatever ...

We gain a lot of functionality, and we can avoid all the dead code in
the kernel at the same time.

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