Can add new module without upgrade the kernel?

[Woody Wu]

On Monday, 30 March 2015, Adam Lee <adam8157 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 05:35:23PM +0800, Woody Wu wrote:
> > Thanks and glad to know that.  Just be curious, it means, in kernel
> building,
> > select a driver as M or as EMPTY will put no influence on the resulted
> kernel
> > image at all, is it right?
>
> Not right if that driver depends on some other things.


Assume I had check the dependency and build all the modules that a module
is depend.


>
> > Previously, I always thought, when I choice a
> > driver as module, I was not only creating a module itself, but also
> force the
> > kernel create some kind of a stub in it's image. Now it seems my
> thoughts is
> > wrong.
>
> You were right at the most of times, but it could be inserted at the most
> of times too, not that picky.


Understood, it's really good news.


>
> Also you still could extract its
> dependencies(if there are) out and compile them as external modules.


For this part I dont get what exactly it mean.


>
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