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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 20:51:24 +0000
From: Ian Molton <spyro@armlinux.org>
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Subject: Re: Hardwired drivers are going away?
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On a sunny Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:44:59 -0800 (PST) David Lang gathered a
sheaf of electrons and etched in their motions the following immortal
words:

> doesn't matter, they are likly to be found on dedicated servers where
> the flexibility of modules is not needed and the slight performance
> advantage is desired.

Exactly WHAT performance advantage? once the module is loaded, its loaded.
most modules use the same code to handle modular and non-modular builds
anyhow (look at the ide drivers, for example)
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