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From: Emmanuel Duros <Emmanuel.Duros@sophia.inria.fr>
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Subject: net device driver as a module
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Hi all,

I have not seen any network device driver (except for PCMCIA cards)
loadable as a module.

Are there any reasons to that (speed) ?

Would not it be faster to write first a network device driver as a
module (sparing lots of reboots) ?

Emmanuel


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