linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86, extable: Handle early exceptions

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Message-ID: <m2k41avmfe.fsf@igel.home>
Date:	Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:26:29 +0200
From:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Daney <ddaney.cavm@...il.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86, extable: Handle early exceptions

Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com> writes:

> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 4:10 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
>> be better.  That being said, some distros are complaining about the
>> amount of time it takes to load modules on boot...
>
> That could be fixed in the installer for the distribution by rebuilding a kernel
> with the target set of modules for the system built in.

Which would also make it pretty much unsupportable.

Andreas.

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