-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Sean McNeil wrote: |> Andy Green wrote: |>> Somebody in the thread at some point said: |>> | Andy Green wrote: |>> |> This patch stops making Ethernet-over-USB as a built-in and makes |>> it a |>> |> module instead. If you use NFS like that you will hate it. |>> | |>> | Hmm, I understand the goal. Unfortunately, this also means that having |>> | bad modules can now prevent you from ssh'ing in even more easily :-( |>> |>> I realize it's contentious. You are right, it is less convenient if you |>> were in the situation you had userspace up and got an IP allocated, etc, |>> but your modules were broken. |>> |>> Personally, I don't use our dist config and use one with many more |>> drivers as built-in anyway. Someone could recover by DFU-ing this kind |>> of kernel in. |>> |>> Bad modules is a repeated problem in the wild we need to solve anyway. |>> And if your modules are bad, currently they can trash your kernel making |>> an even worse problem. |>> |>> Is anyone using NFS over USB Ethernet? |>> |>> -Andy |> I use it for development until a certain point. What you are talking |> about, however, is the default config and that should be whatever you |> determine is the best fit for the end users not us developers. | | P.S. I don't see the benefit of modules in an embedded device. You know
This is on the edge of what an embedded device is an what a weak PC is, but that isn't the issue. | all the drivers and functionality you need to support the device | already. What do you gain by making them modules as opposed to compiling | them into the kernel? initialization ordering? Some of the drivers are mutually exclusive, like the gadgets... hey OK we can do two but we can't do five. I like my stuff to be built-in, but if everything we enable was built-in it would start to get a bit crazy... for all kernel users. I have a radical patchset coming which largely resolves init ordering and suspend / resume ordering stuff that has been around since the start, if I can get it finalized. - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkiQuXMACgkQOjLpvpq7dMp1IQCffXJmlMj8m4k0J1gEGPz+796T tMwAniP4NNiOHADJLAu+ws05U6xyHiR6 =fq3E -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
