Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:45:12 -0800 | From | Linda Walsh <> | Subject | Re: Security downgrade? CONFIG_HOTPLUG required in 2.6.16? |
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Jim Crilly wrote: > But what about USB keyboards and mice? IIRC at least some of the newer > servers where I work don't come with PS/2 ports anymore. > --- I have basic USB serial-I/O support built-in to my kernel: it needs to monitor a USB-based UPS. Would a keyboard/mouse require more support than to simply be compiled in?
I had a laptop that only had a 10Mb-ethernet built-in. When it became a few years old, I switched to using a PCMCIA card for 100Mb-ethernet. I never used the laptop's internal port anymore but always used the pluggable card. PCMCIA was still outside the kernel then, so my quick & easy solution was to not compile in the 10BT device and use the in-kernel driver for the 3com based 100BT card. I didn't need the "hot plugging" capabilities of PCMCIA -- the kernel just called the new device "eth0", and used it as a "permanent device".
If a computer uses USB I/O for basic console operations, can't those drivers be statically built-in?
-linda
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