On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 14:48 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Ralf Corsepius (rc040203@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.