From: Nuitari <nuitari@melchior.nuitari.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: modules
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 19:05:39 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511041904550.4212@melchior.nuitari.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511042255.jA4Mtap01618@webmail.phys.ualberta.ca>
>> This is why I miss RedHat. I don't want to spend my time customizing
>> a kernel then spending more time with trial and error getting just the
>> kernel I need. RedHat has a system in place that installs a minimal
>> kernal and then loads almost everything else as modules. Genkernel almost
>> does what I want but it is always a struggle. The base system always
>> loads all the different disk drivers and does not unload the unused ones.
>
> Absence of autounloading is not a property of gentoo, but of recent kernels.
> Somewhere along Linux people decided that unloading unused modules is not
> that useful :(
>
> Am I right, actually ?
I really don't see the point of going to that much trouble to save a few
Kbs of RAM
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-04 22:55 [gentoo-amd64] Re: modules Dmitri Pogosyan
2005-11-05 0:05 ` Nuitari [this message]
2005-11-05 9:39 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2005-11-05 2:25 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Ian Hastie
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2005-11-05 1:36 Dmitri Pogosyan
2005-11-04 12:40 [gentoo-amd64] modules DR GM SEDDON
2005-11-04 13:49 ` [gentoo-amd64] modules Duncan
2005-11-04 20:04 ` Sebastian Redl
2005-11-04 21:25 ` Steve Herber
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