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Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>: > > Not in this case. If the DMI read fails, the worst-case result is the > > user sees some ISA extra questions. > > No, the worst case is if the DMI read says no ISA slots when there > really are some, and the user misses a driver that he needs. Nobody has told me this is a real failure case yet. To cause a problem, the situation would have to be that DMI read fails to detect a card in use in an ISA slot. It's OK if it reports no slots when all slots are empty. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> The possession of arms by the people is the ultimate warrant that government governs only with the consent of the governed. -- Jeff Snyder - 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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