From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HnfGK-0006tT-VP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 18:27:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4EIPJb2023736; Mon, 14 May 2007 18:25:19 GMT Received: from mirus.exceedtech.net (ns0.exceedtech.net [70.151.169.5]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4EIIbFB014043 for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 18:18:38 GMT Received: from [4.231.89.33] (dialup-4.231.89.33.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.89.33]) by mirus.exceedtech.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l4EILHqj019896 for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 13:21:22 -0500 Message-ID: <4648A7F1.40003@exceedtech.net> Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 13:18:25 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070504 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel References: <49bf44f10705140848n41d13c0cy5225964032ecb480@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10705140848n41d13c0cy5225964032ecb480@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: bc96d522-82ea-431b-a59d-3115d859cb3a X-Archives-Hash: 4241682ee0fdf0901f8f6bba84bf432e Grant wrote: > I've been puzzling a bit lately over the best way to manage my kernel. > I've always tried to keep it as minimal as possible, and I only > enable things as I need them. I also don't build modules from the > kernel at all. > > Is there a better way to go? I'm starting to think it might be better > to build every single module and let the system load them as it needs > them. > > - Grant I always build everything in the kernel. The only module I have is the nvidia driver. Looks like this: > root@smoker / # lsmod > Module Size Used by > nvidia 4550612 12 > root@smoker / # I have not had any trouble kernel wise in a long time. I guess it is just a matter of preference. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list