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From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] shipping kernels with default modules?
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On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 05:21:20PM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Hi guys,
>=20
> Has there been any further thought as of late about shipping kernels
> with modules only by default, rather than monolithic kernels?
>=20
> I tried this experiment a couple years ago and besides a little
> trickery with ACPI module loading, it worked out fine.
>=20
> Is there any reason we aren't doing this at the moment? Eg by having a
> default loader modules list populated from the kernel config file?
I use highly modularized kernel on all machines, because it allows me
to use (almost) the same kernel config.

Will you provide a prototype change for your suggestion ?

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