"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote:
> > To maintain the "forwarders" sounds like as much (if not more) work than
> > just fixing the errant modules in the first place. Plus you loose the
> > flexibility of changing data structures and functions which are inlined and
> > just #included, which is exactly the advantage Linus was talking about.
>
> Guys!!!!!
>
> Well, let's just wait until the monolithic kernel is 500MB in size and
> requires 8GB of ram to load (or alternately the .config file requies an
> 8GB disk to hold it when you build Linux).
>
> What I am hearing are no technical arguments, just "control, control,
> control ...".
"forwarders" puts the problem (out of date drivers) out of sight, and
out of mind. So, we'll end up with 10000 out of date drivers, and no-one
will care enough to fix it.
Having things fail to compile is good encouragement to fix drivers ;-)
Andrew Clausen
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