Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Mar 1999 18:36:33 +0000 | From | Thomas Davis <> | Subject | Re: RFC: ISA Plug and Play Implementation |
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Jeremy Katz wrote: > > Hi. As Linus has stated several times that he does not like any of the > implementations for ISA Plug and Play devices which are currently out > there (kernel-space), I have begun to try to work on one myself, mainly > for 2.3.x. I currently have detection of devices and knowing what > resources they will accept and was wondering how people thought that the > actual allocation of resources should be handled. Part of the problem > (IMO) with the current code is that it requires a) every driver to know > about plug and play or b) the plug and play to know about every driver. > Unfortunately, I've been unable to come up with a great way to get around > this and was wondering if anyone had any ideas. >
I'd like to see a linux based PnP program, that allows you to see _all_ PnP devices in the system. No, isapnp doesn't do this. It only allows you configure ISA PnP devices - and won't even show the system board PnP devices. Why do we want this information? Fast IrDA devices are typically built into the system board, and I want to be able to query and find out what devices are there. If your PnP system returns "generic IrDA device", well, it's broken. (that's usually an alias for the SIR portion.)
Personally, I want this to be userland. We can configure the device when we load the module (or hard code the configuration into the kernel).
If someone knows of program that can do this, please email me with information. So far, all of the Linux PnP systems don't get this right.
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