Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? | Date | Thu, 03 Jan 2002 11:37:35 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org> said:
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> Then the best thing to do is to put a disclaimer on your > autoconfiguration program: "WARNING: autoconfigure may not detect older > hardware that was not designed for reliable detection. If autoconfigure > fails to detect all of your hardware, you may need to manually configure > your kernel."
It is a lot easier just to leave a question in "Do you have old (ISA) cards in your machine?"... solves 95% of the "problem" with minimal effort. The question can then go for "Newbie configuration" in a few years.
> Sometimes perfection isn't worth the effort, especially when trying to > support a class of hardware that is rapidly becoming obsolete. Optimize > for the most likely case, and deal with the rare corner cases with other > means.
Bingo! -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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