Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: udev sysfs docs Re: State of devfs in 2.6? | From | (Måns Rullgård) | Date | Wed, 10 Dec 2003 22:49:45 +0100 |
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Ed Sweetman <ed.sweetman@wmich.edu> writes:
> the biggest advantage from modules is the ability to enable/disable > devices with different initialization configurations without > rebooting, including the use of devices that aren't present during > boot or may be added to a system that cant be put down to > reboot. Embedded systems usually do not change, that's just part of > being embedded, modules dont really make sense there unless things > like filesystems and non-device modules never get used at the same > time and memory is limited such that 100KB actually matters.
An embedded system could still have USB or something like that. Many PDAs do have pluggable hardware modules.
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