Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Feb 1998 01:52:58 +0200 | From | Itai Nahshon <> | Subject | Re: The Ultra Sound Driver |
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Chris Wedgwood wrote: > I hope so. > > I thought isapnp was best left to user-space (I'm not ever sure luse95 > activate the devices as part of the kernel). > > What (aside from most modern sound cards) really requires isapnp support in > the kernel? Won't most IDE & SCSI thingies be initialized sufficiently by > the bios? > > And if it really is required - can is it possible to mark it __initfunc() ? > > -Chris
I just got an ISDN card, I could not find one which is not PNP.
The kernel part of the pnp support can be small, but most of it cannot be __initfunc(). Kernel isa pnp support does not just replace isapnp. It should be able to interact with device drivers long after boot time.
Itai -- Itai Nahshon nahshon@actcom.co.il Also nahshon@vnet.ibm.com
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