Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel

yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu
Sat, 12 Jun 1999 21:18:02 -0600

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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?

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