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On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > Go down the DMI path, and get it right _sometimes_, or take a zero. > > Getting it right sometimes is likely to do more harm than good. > Not in this case. If the DMI read fails, the worst-case result is the > user sees some ISA extra questions. Erm, worse case would surely be "I have ISA cards, and all the options to use them are missing". Sure you could have a button to switch them all back on, but hey! this implies Aunt Tillie knows she has ISA cards which gets everything right back to square one. -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs - 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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