[Gllug] Module vs compiled in...

[Doug Winter]

On Fri 18 Jul Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> At 19:51 18/07/2003, you wrote:
> >As far as I can tell, the only reason to build something as a module is
> >because you haven't bought the device in question yet.
> 
> Wrong. Take USB devices and other hot-pluggable devices, you _want_ the 
> drivers to dynamically load and unload, otherwise hotplugging would only 
> ever work for the first device inserted, and it would have to be inserted 
> before the kernel booted.

I don't understand.  Why would these devices not work with the drivers
compiled into the kernel?

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