Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Jun 1999 00:18:55 -0400 (EDT) | From | phazer <> | Subject | Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel |
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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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