de-modularising for the win!

[Kyle McMartin]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 06:34:18PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:10:35 +0200
> Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
> 
> > The alsa-project is a good example. Say you purchase a new motherboard 
> > and it has a brand new audio codec that is not yet supported by the 
> > in-kernel drivers. You report that to the alsa-project and they develop 
> > code to support that codec; a few days or weeks later they might tell 
> > you to download alsa-driver-1.0.18-alpha1.tar.bz and compile that for 
> > testing. If certain sound drivers (say snd-hda-intel) or the soundcore 
> > are compiled into the kernel (like planed for Fedora) then you will 
> > often be forced to recompile the whole kernel to test the new driver. 
> > That's a whole lot more complicated then compiling just the 
> > alsa-drivers, which is not that hard to do these days with current 
> > Fedora kernels.
> > 
> 
> I've got to agree, for ALSA who provide a turnkey package that lets people
> test the latest drivers. Our users do compile that package and report back
> whether it fixes their problems. We probably shouldn't build any sound drivers
> in so they can keep doing that.
> 

Heh, we come back to this again... Why can't we do a debug/nodebug style
split for rawhide's built-in-ness? For release we do what's best for
the silent (core sound modules built in, drivers not, since they're pigs.)
majority...

regards, Kyle