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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:45:12 -0800
From: Linda Walsh <lkml@tlinx.org>
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Subject: Re: Security downgrade? CONFIG_HOTPLUG required in 2.6.16?
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Jim Crilly wrote:
> But what about USB keyboards and mice? IIRC at least some of the newer
> servers where I work don't come with PS/2 ports anymore.
>   
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    I have basic USB serial-I/O support built-in to my kernel:
it needs to monitor a USB-based UPS.  Would a keyboard/mouse
require more support than to simply be compiled in?

    I had a laptop that only had a 10Mb-ethernet built-in. 
When it became a few years old, I switched to using a PCMCIA
card for 100Mb-ethernet.  I never used the laptop's internal
port anymore but always used the pluggable card.  PCMCIA was
still outside the kernel then, so my quick & easy solution was
to not compile in the 10BT device and use the in-kernel driver
for the 3com based 100BT card.  I didn't need the "hot plugging"
capabilities of PCMCIA -- the kernel just called the new device
"eth0", and used it as a "permanent device".

    If a computer uses USB I/O for basic console operations,
can't those drivers be statically built-in?

-linda

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