| Date | Thu, 3 Jan 2002 04:09:24 -0500 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? |
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David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>: > Eric, what are you doing to do if you _do_ detect that there are ISA slots > present? If there are ISA (not isapnp) cards present, you'll _have_ to > start asking 'difficult' questions. So why bother to detect the ISA slots > automatically? Just hide the ISA_SLOTS option in idiotmode.
You have my intentions backwards. What I'd like to be able to do is suppress ISA_SLOTS when there are detectably *no* ISA cards. Unfortunately I have had it demonstrated that the DMI tables can give false negatives (false positives would not have been a showstopper). -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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