[Techtalk] the finer points of kernel customization

[Mary]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004, Carla Schroder wrote:
> and if you build filesystems and boot devices into the kernel, no need
> to mess with mkinitrd, which sounds like a lovely thing to me. Why
> would you want those as modules in any case? they seem rather too
> fundamental to not be built into the kernel.

The distros seem to like it, presumably so that they don't have to build
all possible filesystems with all possible disk drivers into the
kernels.

-Mary