Re: USB disk shows up late at boot
On Mon December 21 2009, Celejar wrote:
> > Yes and no WRT flexibility. Yes because you an choose exactly what does
> > and does not go into your kernel. No, because once it's built, if you
> > want to add a new hardware device later, you might have to build a new
> > kernel. With the modular prebuilt kernels, you can plug in just about
> > anything and it'll likely be recognized. Then again, there's nothing
> > keeping one from building his/her own kernel and including drivers in
> > anticipation of future needs. The downside to this is kernel bloat for
> > hardware you're not using "right now". I obviously agree that you have
> > more control doing your own kernel.
>
> Agreed, and I get bitten by this all the time. Worse, often I disable
> some feature that I actually need, and then spend much time and
> aggravation figuring out why something is suddenly broken ... Well, I
> guess that's part of the valuable learning process that we discussed
> earlier :/
how do you know what to enable/disable? Do I need a full-list of all my
existing hardware in front of me? how do you know what the dependencies are?
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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800
Registered Ubuntu User #12459
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