On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 10:52:38AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > and USB and PCMCIA.... (although PCMCIA IDE has bugs still) > > how so? the 2.6 driver model is that drivers remain loaded and just get > reactivated if the device comes back.... Because many of the drivers use a lot of memory so if you are regularly switching you can lose as much memory to the kernel accumulating modules as you do to stuff like overuse of inlines
