Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_KMOD needs to be default y

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 01:49:31PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Far too many people configure their kernel without CONFIG_KMOD
> and then complain that wireless breaks, thanks to Herbert Xu for
> pointing me to this.
> 
> This patch makes CONFIG_KMOD default to "y" and adds a warning
> that people should not turn it off.

What about just killing the config option entirely?  It' basically
guarding a ~50 lines function + a sysctl variable.  I think having
modules but not CONFIG_KMOD is entirely unreasonable.

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