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Kernel Summit Wrapup

Posted by chrisd on from the free-jeff-garzik dept.

Jonathan Corbet at LWN has posted a terrific summary of the first Day of the Ottawa Kernel Summit, and you should expect the second day soon. In it he relates the greatest hits of the first day's talks, including the AMD Hammer Port, Block I/O, Modules, and more. For mp3s or oggs of this event, check out the Kernel Summit MP3 Repository on SourceForge. The big news is the desire to feature freeze 2.5 within 4 or 5 months. Halloween. I've posted a very small gallery of the group pictures from the summit on my site.

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  1. modules, and why Rusty is wrong: by rodgerd · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Rusty started with the claim that the only purpose for modules was adding hardware that you didn't have when you booted your kernel.


    Sorry, but this shows a paucity of imagination ("Rusty's smoking crack again"). Modules are useful because I don't have to rebuild the kernel constantly. I love not needing to care if I have to swap ethernet cards - tune /etc/modules.conf, reboot. Not "reconfigure and recompile kernel, fiddle with lilo, reboot".

    I also love the fact that distros no longer resemble the bad old days where there where a billion different boot images for installation, depending on which combination of hardware I happen to have. Anyone want to guess the QA costs to RedHat if modules went away?

    Rusty's wrong, wrong, wrong.