From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: babydr@baby-dragons.com (Mr. James W. Laferriere) Subject: Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 18:08:32 +0000 (GMT) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), esr@thyrsus.com, cate@debian.org (Giacomo Catenazzi), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel List) > Hello All , And what mechanism is going to be used for an -all- > compiled in kernel ? Everyone and there brother is so enamoured > of Modules . Not everyone uses nor will use modules . For 2.5 if things go to plan there will be no such thing as a "compiled in" driver. They simply are not needed with initramfs holding what were once the "compiled in" modules. Alan - 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/