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DateFri, 4 Jan 2002 15:36:46 -0500
From"Eric S. Raymond" <>
SubjectRe: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?
Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
> > If you find an MCA-bus, you can suppress most (but not all) ISA-cards
> > too (some of the cards support MCA without having any extra MCA-related
> > code in the drivers, such as the eexpress-driver, but I can help with
> > such a list if necessary.)
> 
>  Shouldn't the drivers depend on "CONFIG_ISA or CONFIG_MCA" then?  Just
> like CONFIG_DEFXX depends on "CONFIG_PCI or CONFIG_EISA"? 

Yes, that's almost the right solution (CONFIG_ISACARDS or CONFIG_MCA).  
I'll add

	require MCA != ISA_CARDS

to the rulebase.  Not that there are a lot of MCA machines out there but
every little bit helps.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

An armed society is a polite society.  Manners are good when one 
may have to back up his acts with his life.
        -- Robert A. Heinlein, "Beyond This Horizon", 1942
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