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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

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