XPost: comp.os.linux.development.system   
   From: nate@vulcan.lan   
      
   phil-news-nospam@ipal.net writes:   
      
   > In comp.os.linux.development.system J.O. Aho  wrote:   
   > | phil-news-nospam@ipal.net wrote:   
   > |   
   > |> | There is no automatically detection of your hardware and selection of   
   > |> | modules/build in drivers, you can either use the default configuration   
   which   
   > |> | will be like any other kernel you get with a all the binary   
   distributions, a   
   > |> | kernel that has drivers for things you don't have.   
   > |>   
   > |> But the drivers are not all loaded.  That's what a modular kernel is for,   
   > |> so you don't have to load everything.   
   > |   
   > | There is no point in loading SATA drivers if you only have a Via MPV4   
   chipset   
   > | which hardly do support ATA66. So no point in loading all the stuff you   
   don't   
   > | need.   
   >   
   > Right.  If you don't have device FOO you don't need driver FOO.   
      
   What if device FOO is some sort of removable hardware that happens not   
   to be installed right now, but which you intend to use regularly?  Most   
   USB devices would fall in this category.  You can't even insist that   
   someone install those devices before doing your autoconfiguration;   
   perhaps I have a USB flash disk, scanner, cell phone, and printer, but   
   only one USB port and no hub.   
      
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