Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:31:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:31:11 -0500 Received: from khms.westfalen.de ([62.153.201.243]:16873 "EHLO khms.westfalen.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:31:07 -0500 Date: 15 Jan 2002 21:44:00 +0200 From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <8Gu-Kwrmw-B@khms.westfalen.de> In-Reply-To: <20020115172413.GD7030@vitelus.com> Subject: Re: Hardwired drivers are going away? X-Mailer: CrossPoint v3.12d.kh8 R/C435 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Organisation? Me?! Are you kidding? In-Reply-To: <20020114131050.E14747@thyrsus.com> <20020115172413.GD7030@vitelus.com> X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Comment: Unsolicited commercial mail will incur an US$100 handling fee per received mail. X-Fix-Your-Modem: +++ATS2=255&WO1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org aaronl@vitelus.com (Aaron Lehmann) wrote on 15.01.02 in <20020115172413.GD7030@vitelus.com>: > I agree with all of yours. IMHO, the proposed scheme for 2.5 is plain > bad. It will require an initrd (initramfs, or whatever), and force > kernel installation to be more difficult. The performance overhead > sounds like a major downside, epsecially when currently people know > what hardware they have and build things into the kernel accordingly. Installation more difficult? Significant performance overhead? What *are* you smoking? MfG Kai - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/