Originally posted by Uqbar
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I definitely see the point. A typical distro won't need it - it already has a powerful packaging system and a kernel-header package that matches the kernel itself. But embedded devices are a very different beast, and given the possibilities we have now (64 bits, GB or RAM) a 4MB module or built-in does not seems a very large price to pay in exchange of being sure that these are the kernel header for that kernel.
Originally posted by Uqbar
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Third, you are hosting static data inside the kernel that can be, but not necessarily are, used during some package compilations. Most of the kernels all around the world aren't compiling. Even as a loadable module, a simple access to the source tree would trigger a module pull for that stuff.
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Well, I don't always use all the features of the kernel each time I use Linux
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