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SubjectRe: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel

On Sat, 12 Jun 1999 yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu wrote:

>On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 03:09:27PM +0800, David Luyer wrote:
>> > yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu wrote:
>> > > On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 11:59:05PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
>> > > > I would really like
>> > > > to boot up monolitic kernel on my laptop and _still_ use pcmcia ne2k.
>> > >
>> > > Why?
>> >
>> > Faster. Smaller. Fewer TLB entries.
>> > Arguably by negligable amounts.
>>
>> Also more secure, or at least less simple to do evil things if broken in to.
>
>So someone breaks in and is able to either trash module objects or
> run insmod, and if there are no module objects, that person can
> now do less damage?

see phrack issue 51 article 9

http://www.phrack.com/search.phtml?view&article=p51-9


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