Q: MTD and NIC Roms...

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 06:14, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> And I think that's the best place for it.  We _could_ bloat up the 
> kernel code by adding the ability flash -- but how many users is that 
> going to serve, that are not already served by existing programs?  So, I 
> disagree with getting this stuff into the kernel at all.

I see your point, but OTOH that it's under a separate config option and
it's actually a _tiny_ amount of code. 

And we all know that hardware drivers don't live in userspace. 

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dwmw2