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Duncan wrote: |
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> kmod itself is trivial in size time and space requirements, but it's |
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> the principle as much as anything, and in the case of an unneeded |
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> module loader there's an additional security concern as well |
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I'm afraid this is flawed. If you want to hinder modules from being |
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loaded then you need to disable modules in the kernel, and not rely |
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on insmod not being installed on the system. |
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Look at insmod in asmutils, my guess is that actual work of loading a |
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module is less than 42 instructions. |
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> risk or maintenance cost .. on a monolithic kernel gentoo system, a |
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> kernel module loader increases both |
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Forget about the loader. Your knob is in a different configuration, |
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specifically CONFIG_MODULES=n in the kernel. |
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That said, it's a perfectly good point that kmod is a useless |
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dependency on your system and all like it, and that it would be |
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nice for Gentoo to know about this and not pull it in. |
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I guess this could be accomplished with a USE=kernelmodules flag |
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that makes the dep optional and applies a simple patch or two |
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before building udev from systemd sources, and I guess that patches |
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for the udev ebuild are welcome. :) |
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//Peter |
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