"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote:
>
>> On my RHEL boxes, I do never ever recompile the kernel since Red Hat
>> does not provide support if I do so :)
>
> Is everything 'loadable modules' then? I can't imagine you have some
> mammoth kernel running on your system, do you? with every conceivable
> piece of hardware configured in?
Yes, vendor kernels are very modular--most drivers, packet filtering,
scsi etc are all loadable modules. You can of course build your own
kernel with only the drivers you need built-in, but it usually doesn't
make very much difference. The module system works, in general,
extremely well.
-Doug
