modular -> monolithic

[Egbert Eich]

Jerome Glisse writes:
 > 
 > So i truely don't see a win in being backward compatible except making
 > easier for people to test but hey tester in kernel build their whole
 > kernel... And truely i can see how to outweigh the possibility to throw
 > interface and change them when appropriate without having to add tons
 > of ifdef in the driver code just for staying backward compatible with
 > old api which didn't let you do things you need (assumption being that api
 > change are motivated by somethings :))
 > 

Jerome,

there are users out there who would like to update a driver (since it's
not working well or because they have updated their graphics hardware)
without having to update everything else.
These people are mosly users, not developers - so they don't necessarily 
surface here - but if you try they are not too hard to find.

This of course is also a distro issue - however not exclusively.
While people can make the argument that distros should fix this themselves
I would argue that this is quite a lot to ask from an individual user.

Cheers,
	Egbert.