Messages in this thread | | | Date | 04 Jan 2002 17:39:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? |
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davej@suse.de (Dave Jones) wrote on 03.01.02 in <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201031540390.7309-100000@Appserv.suse.de>:
> On 3 Jan 2002, Kai Henningsen wrote: > > > Now, if we cannot reliably autodetect hardware, we should always make it > > possible to override this manually, and maybe also inform the user that > > we're not certain. But that's no excuse not to try to autodetect when the > > user has *not* overridden us. > > Autodetecting non-pnp ISA hardware safely is something of a black art. > Numerous drivers just hang if you load them and the card isn't present, > or there's another card which answers on the same port/address.
Well yes, that's why I asked for the override and the warning.
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