On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:04:57 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Driver support beyond what's in your shipping kernel.
> 
> I've added drivers that didn't need a kernel recompile. Admittedly, I
> don't think they showed up in the file system as such (i.e., they didn't
> show up in /dev), but I didn't need that.

Yeah, if you have module support compiled in, you only have to compile 
the modules you need, and that does speed things up a bit.  If you're 
using a monolithic kernel (more common in the "old days") without modular 
support, then it was a rebuild.

I used to regularly build my kernels because I wanted features in newer 
versions or add-on drivers that were written to a specific kernel release.

Jim

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