On Sunday 08 Sep 2002 9:35 pm, Adam Bower wrote:
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 09:21:32PM +0100, Ian Thompson-bell wrote:
It depends, i tend to build modules for things that i don't often use or require but if it something is in use 24/7 (like the usb for my modem) then it gets built in statically.
Why? What is the advantage?
like i said when the kernel refused to load the modules it made sense to build things in, I have had this problem many times when using modular kernels and got really annoyed with building a kernel and then finding out i had to rebuild it with something compiled in. Anyhow what is the disadvantage?
Assuming modules load OK then the advantage is not having to recompile a kernel every time a better module becomes available or your hardware changes and you need additional modules.
If you build these two different USB modules, how are they differentiated?
I just read the kernel docs and one is called usb-uhci and the other is called just uhci.
Thanks.
Ian