"nousb" poll

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 14:48 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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.
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.