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From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard?= Roudier <groudier@free.fr>
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On Thu Feb 21, 2002 at 10:24:22PM +0100, G?rard Roudier wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the reply. But my concern is user convenience in _average_
> here. Basically, I want the 99% of users that cannot afford neither need
> nor want PCI hotplug to have their system just dead in order to make happy
> the 1%.

I think _lots_ of people have laptops -- far more than just 1%.  
Those laptops have cardbus slots, which need PCI hotplug to work
properly.  And I _know_ that Linus has a laptop with a cardbus 
slot...

 -Erik

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