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DateThu, 3 Jan 2002 04:03:01 -0500
From"Eric S. Raymond" <>
SubjectRe: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>:
> > Think useability.  On Macintoshes, you configure a kernel by moving
> > the  equivalents of modules in and out of a system folder.  Users tune
> > their kernels by moving files around -- no muttering of elaborate
> > incantations required.  *That's* the direction we should be moving in;
> > there is no  good technical reason for the process to be anywhere near
> > as arcane as it is now. 
> 
> We have it better than that already. The distro vendor provides all the 
> modules and they're automatically loaded on demand - you don't even need to 
> move them into the system folder.

So you're saying the users should be completely lost any time they want
to use an upated kernel?
-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism
is its adherents.
	-- George Orwell 
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