Messages in this thread | | | From | "Andrew E. Mileski" <> | Subject | Re: PNP patch into kernel when? | Date | Fri, 6 Dec 1996 23:10:00 -0500 (EST) |
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> As for the rest of the issues, they _are_ quite tricky. For example with > my NodeRunner, it _can_ be reconfigured, but probably not without > rebooting, and as it's an EEPROM, it probably doesn't have that many > available write cycles. So it would be wonderful to be able to plug in a > module that lets the configuration manager _know_ it can be reconfigured, > and do so it if I explicitly authorize it. But doing it without permission > would be a no-no, and ideally there should be a weighting to suggest that > changing that device is less favorable then changing other devices.
Yes, this makes sense.
So how about flags like: - configurable anytime - needs reboot - configurable with suervision - not configurable
-- Andrew E. Mileski mailto:aem@ott.hookup.net Linux Plug-and-Play Kernel Project http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/pnp/ XFree86 Matrox Team http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html
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