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FromRob Landley <>
SubjectRe: The plug and play menu is ISA only?
DateSun, 23 Nov 2003 01:04:01 -0600
On Friday 21 November 2003 21:49, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> writes:
> > Is the "plug and play" menu just ISA plug and play only?  (It has nothing
> > to do with hotplug or anything else, right?  PCI devices are "plug and
> > play", but that's an actual part of the PCI spec.  USB is hotplug and
> > play, etc.)
> >
> > Or is this also used for on-motherboard devices in modern systems?  (Is
> > it ever likely to be needed on a laptop made in the last five years, for
> > eample?)
>
> The only time you ever need to select ISA plug and play, is if you
> have an old PnP ISA card.  You'd know if you did.  Modern systems
> don't even have ISA slots.

Shouldn't it be removed the "devices" menu and stuck under bus options->isa 
then?  (Yeah, not a critical fix.  But is this sort of thing a 2.6.1 
candidate or a 2.7 candidate?)

Rob
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