Built-in modules review

[Scott James Remnant]

On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 15:12 -0400, Chase Douglas wrote:

> This has unfortunately led us down the path of inflexibility in our
> kernel though. For example, the HID drivers were compiled in
> statically for Karmic, but there's active development going on
> upstream. I (and others) wanted to hack around a little with an Apple
> Magic Mouse and other multitouch devices and had to compile a new
> kernel because the HID module was built in. Thus, we've pulled it back
> out of the kernel for Lucid. IMHO it's a better tradeoff to load such
> a module dynamically rather than compile it in statically.
> 
The HID drivers are loaded by hardware.

Anything you can do "modinfo foo | grep alias" with and see something
with wildcards will be autoloaded in userspace.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott at ubuntu.com
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