Re: Suggestion for handling of boot-time driver options

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 14 Dec 1997 17:21:06 +0000 (GMT)

> 1. We could avoid the well-known problem of "this driver doesn't compile as
> module" ?

And replace it with "This and that module together crash" because we have
no strict ordering

> 3. This allows the use of binary-only drivers with monolithic kernels.
> (are there such beasts?)

No cos they violate the GPL and will continue to do so