Modularisation of kernel 2.6.20.7 (acpi)

Question

Hello everyone,
I am very much surprised about the change in the recent kernel.
Requiring each and every user to load such important modules such as acpi by hand seems awkward to me! I know that Arch Linux is a distribution aimed at experienced users, but still I don't like this step. What modules might come next? How many people actually had this problem?
I am sure there must be an easier way to solve the problem for those people who have actually experienced troubles with the former setup, e.g. passing some kernel option in the bootloader to not load these modules.
Please try to explain this change to me and, even more, consider to change it back!
BTW, I did not find an existing thread about this, I hope this is correct.
Best regards,
Niklas.

Answer 1

they aren't needed that early in boot. do you check your battery percentages at initcpio time?
Sure, i don't think that me or anyone else will check this at boot time.  I suggest this because of 2 reasons:
1. On the mailing list one person wrote that he got problems with his fan instead that he loads the modul from the rc.conf. So why not loading it at the earliest moment.
2. Other distros what i know (opensuse and debian) load such modules not with boot scripts because they append them to the kernel image. So if i suggest to put thermal and fan in the kernel image than i must suggest to put a module as at example battery there too. I think a mix of having some in the kernel image and some in the rc.conf won't be understandable.-)
It is only a suggestion what i have written and not a MUST HAVE thing.
the advantage is a big one, as particular modules cause issues for some users. So now, some people can boot their systems
That is the most positive case from this action because i have a jmicron controller and so i know who bad it is as the pc won't boot.-)