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DateThu, 3 Jan 2002 04:09:24 -0500
From"Eric S. Raymond" <>
SubjectRe: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?
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).
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		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of
the individual right to lawful defense."
	-- Frederic Bastiat, "The Law"
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