Subject: Re: No IDE-DMA after sup today ("no driver support")...
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 10/21/1998 18:51:00
Jason Thorpe writes:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 1998 16:09:40 -0400 
>  "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
> 
>  > Pardon, but why is a flag better than a kernel option in this case?
>  > Having it be a flag seems somewhat counterintuitive to me so I'm
>  > interested in your reasoning.
> 
> Um, how about "so you can enable it for one device and not another"? :-)

That makes considerable sense.

Perry