Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: The plug and play menu is ISA only? | Date | Sun, 23 Nov 2003 01:04:01 -0600 |
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On Friday 21 November 2003 21:49, Måns Rullgård wrote: > Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> writes: > > Is the "plug and play" menu just ISA plug and play only? (It has nothing > > to do with hotplug or anything else, right? PCI devices are "plug and > > play", but that's an actual part of the PCI spec. USB is hotplug and > > play, etc.) > > > > Or is this also used for on-motherboard devices in modern systems? (Is > > it ever likely to be needed on a laptop made in the last five years, for > > eample?) > > The only time you ever need to select ISA plug and play, is if you > have an old PnP ISA card. You'd know if you did. Modern systems > don't even have ISA slots.
Shouldn't it be removed the "devices" menu and stuck under bus options->isa then? (Yeah, not a critical fix. But is this sort of thing a 2.6.1 candidate or a 2.7 candidate?)
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