Re: [Alsa-devel] 2.6.15-rc6: boot failure in saa7134-alsa.c

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> With modules it's possible to test a new ALSA version without
> recompiling the kernel or even rebooting

That's TOTALLY irrelevant.

Kernel modules work fine for developers. I'm not saying that _you_ 
shouldn't use modules.

I'm saying that you have absolutely no business telling others not to 
compile these things in.  Statically compiled drivers have advantages.

			Linus
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