Re: compile all modules.

Alistair Riddell (alistair@watsons.edin.sch.uk)
Wed, 18 Feb 1998 13:38:55 +0000 (GMT)

It would take a long time to compile every single driver that's available,
and some of them (sound in particular) are no use without configuration.
Also I believe some drivers are mutually exclusive - you can have one or
the other but not both.

On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Peter-Paul Witta wrote:

> hi!
>
> if you compile drivers in modules, the user gets a usable set of drivers.
> so why is the default to include or not include drivers into the kernel?
> why not make the "unselected" drivers compile into modules by default?
> they use little diskspace and can always be removed (rm'ed) afterwards.

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