On Apr 9, 2005 3:42 AM, Herbert Xu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Magnus Damm <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Say a kernel shipped with your favourite distribution crashes your
> > machine during boot-up - wouldn't it be nice to be able to just
> > disable the problematic module from the kernel command line instead of
>
> 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
distributions have as streamlined kernels as possible with much code
built as modules - but they would still need some code built-in in the
kernel to have a generic kernel that supports a lot of block devices.
So I think my patch still have a value.
In my case a firewire phy is broken - and, yes - I should fix my
hardware instead of moaning about it here...
Thanks,
/ magnus
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