Re: CD Writing [was: Re: The Real Problem With Debian]
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 14:59, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 07:47:48PM -0400, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> > Unless I'm passing options to a module, I *always* simply add it to the
> > /etc/modules file -- and I've never had a problem.
>
> Then what's the point of it being a module? If it's going to be loaded all
> the time, then build it into the kernel and be done with it. I never have
> seen the point in /etc/modules except for people that use the packaged
> kernels (where, of course, you want everything to be a module so you can
> support the max hardware without having the kernel that ate Detroit).
>
> Although I suppose for something like a SCSI adapter, you could then unload
> and reload the module to get devices re-detected or something.
>
> --
> Marc Wilson
> msw@cox.net
Two common reasons for going with modules:
1) Devices that need particular parameters to be configured wrt the
handler module.
2) System environments where memory is innordinately constrained so only
occasionally used sections are in memory *only* when necessary.
I may have missed something wrt Linux, but as a rule, kernel code in
pretty well any o/s does not ever get swapped out, so for users being
very careful about memory usage, modules for drivers only periodically
active are removed whenever possible.
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