"nousb" poll

Pete Zaitcev zaitcev at redhat.com
Mon Dec 1 01:13:33 UTC 2008


On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:34:54 +0100, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:

> > I don't see how it afffects low end at all - it certainly doesn't
> > save you any memory.

> Yes, making usb built-in killed the most of benefits nousb once had
> provided.

The "nousb" never saved any memory. To say otherwise is cargo cult
science. This is because a) "nousb" never affected the USB core, and
b) tests for it were located inside HCDs, so they had to be loaded
for it to have any effect.

-- Pete




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