[ILUG] modules & network drivers

[Nick Murtagh]

On Wednesday 13 February 2002 11:13, I wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 February 2002 17:14, John P. Looney wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 05:05:49PM +0000, Liam Bedford mentioned:
> > > Most drivers don't do modules any more.
> > > And IIRC, kt.zork.net had a mention from Alan Cox saying that nothing
> > > would be compiled in from 2.5 onwards, because they have a special way
> > > of doing it now.
> >
> >  Bah. Yer man that wrote the kernel profiling code should really update
> > it then :(
>
> I don't think this is going to happen until the initramfs stuff gets done.
> AFAIK it's like a more advanced initrd that contains modules and other
> things...

http://lwn.net/2001/0802/a/initramfs.php3