On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 01:16:03PM -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote:
Somewhere along the line, the AHCI driver was changed from a module
to
being built-in to the kernel. This is a major PITA for anyone who wants
to use a different/customized version of this driver. (I want to
rebuild it with LED triggers for the disk LEDs on my NAS.)
I haven't been able to find anything in git or BZ about why this was
done, probably because searching on "ahci" and "module" in Bugzilla
isn't exactly productive.
because it's commonly used and found on basically every machine now.
there are many advantages to having it built in that outweigh the cons.
--kyle