Re: stuff that goes into GENERIC

[Artur Grabowski <art@stacken.kth.se>]

Trevor Schroeder <tschroed@acm.org> writes:

> Hmmmm... I hate to be the lamer that follows up his own message, but the
> original was maybe not very clear.  What I mean to say, is there a way to
> take traditionally monolithic kernel items (such as KMEMSTATS or IPSEC) and
> instead compile them into LKMs?

This has been discussed, but noone has really tried to do this (mostly because
it's really boring and noone needs it too much to give it the time).

> Like you can when you select portions of
> the Linux kernel to compile as modules.  I would really like to have
> KMEMSTATS available if I wanted, but otherwise unload them without having
> to reboot to a different kernel.

KMEMSTATS are almost impossible to add as an LKM (just look at the code
in /sys/kern/kern_malloc.c to see why).

//art