On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:38:59PM -0700, Chris Graves wrote: > I've been using linux full time for about 6 months now, but I haven't > found anything on the pros and cons of compiling the kernel with > features built-in vs built as modules? What are the advantages of either > case?
Depends if you care about the size of your kernel, or if you want to use the features all the time. IE: I don't always use ntfs, so I feel that it's just taking up "space" in the kernel, but I want it available for when I do use NTFS. It also gives you flexibility if you change hardware around and need to get a new NIC driver, having everything compiled as a module (or setting it and running a quick "make modules modules_install" before swapping hardware) means you just modprobe the new driver and don't have to worry about recompiling everything. Recompiling everything as a module also gives you the ability to autoprobe for hardware, but that's more a distro maker thing I think. I'm sure there are far better reasons though :) alan -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games." -- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
