"nousb" poll

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Nov 24 19:48:15 UTC 2008


Ralf Corsepius (rc040203 at freenet.de) said: 
> Yes, I am.
> 
> Typically on older machines,
> * which don't have USB.

... in which case nousb does nothing.

> * on which USB is too uneffective to be useful (e.g. only have USB-1.x)

... in which case nousb only saves a bit of time on boot initializing
the controller.

> <sigh/> another nail in Fedora's coffin on low end platforms?

Given that all it does is tell a built-in module to not initialize,
I don't see how it afffects low end at all - it certainly doesn't
save you any memory.

Bill




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