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"? :-)

How about "flags are patchable"?  :-)

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