On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 14:48 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Ralf Corsepius (rc040203(a)freenet.de) said:
> Yes, I am.
>
> Typically on older machines,
> * which don't have USB.
... in which case nousb does nothing.
It avoids potential errors
> * 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.
... and poking around into BIOS/registers etc.
> <sigh/> another nail in Fedora's coffin on low end
platforms?
Given that all it does is tell a built-in module
Note this
^^^^^^^^
to not initialize,
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.