Re: [PATCH][RFC] disable built-in modules V2

From: Magnus Damm (magnus.damm_at_gmail.com)
Date: 04/09/05

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    Date:	Sat, 9 Apr 2005 12:03:45 +0200
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

    On Apr 9, 2005 11:48 AM, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
    > On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 11:43:59AM +0200, Magnus Damm wrote:
    > >
    > > > Perhaps your favourite distribution could build that as a module to
    > > > start with.
    > >
    > > Right. Today distributions can boot from external usb-storage devices,
    > > maybe even from firewire hardware as I am sure you know. I guess they
    > > have support for a device built-in for a reason. I think most
    >
    > Perhaps they should start using initramfs then.

    But how does that help me? I still want to be able to pass a list of
    unwanted modules on the kernel command line. Using initramfs and
    modules is fine, although I would prefer being able to unload built-in
    modules instead - but that is another story. Your suggestion just
    pushes the problem to user space. I think the best alternative would
    be a combination of kernel-space code (my patch) and awareness of the
    command line in the module loader running from initramfs/rootfs.

    / magnus
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