In message <20040521192333.GI6763 at smtp.west.cox.net> you wrote: > > First, when this has come up in the past, the first question is why is > this useful, given that with the hardware and peripherals in question, > loadable drivers aren't really useful (and don't shoot the messenger > please).
As has been discussed before, too, loadable drivers are very useful during development; they can even be useful in production systems when you need and easy way to update software updates in a running system. The fact that hte existing drivers don't support this is IMHO more of an historical lapse than an argument for or against such a feature. The fact alone that this is at least the third implementation and this feature which was submitted for inclusion with the public trees should make clear that there is some need for it. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de Little known fact about Middle Earth: The Hobbits had a very sophi- sticated computer network! It was a Tolkien Ring... ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
