On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Andy Green wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > i notice that the default kernel config shipped with FC6 > > selects, as modules, a sizable selection of options under MTD > > support. is there anything here that's actually required on a > > non-embedded system that has no flash? my first impression is > > "no" but i'm willing to be disabused of that notion. > > Hi Robert - > > I never saw anything use MTD or JFFS2 outside of onboard flash > devices for embedded: no USB sticks or anything else AFAIK. yes -- USB sticks appear as SCSI devices, last time i looked, right? > But since they are modules, isn't it okay that they build the > modules by default and hardly anyone uses them? For example NBD > isn't widely used, but the fact there were modules for it in the > default Fedora kernel has been really useful for me and nobody else > had to have it taking up main memory (although I guess a lot of > people are storing it). oh, i realize it doesn't hurt to build them as modules, but i'm doing a walkthrough of a kernel config and build for some folks later this week (latest "git pull" of kernel on FC6) and part of the discussion will be what parts of the kernel legitimately *need* to be there for a reasonably usable build. i think i'll make that another post under another more general subject. rday
