Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Aug 1998 09:57:27 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: de4x5.c patch against 2.1.117 |
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On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Dan Hollis wrote: > On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Couldn't we just use the new functionality correctly instead of emulating > > an old and very ugly interface? > > Speaking of interfaces, what's holding up the addition of Andrew Mileski's > ISA PnP stuff? It would be nice to have a standardized API for ISA PnP, > especially for some new drivers I'm writing.
What's holding up ISA PnP is that all the patches I've seen have been fairly horrible.
The PnP patches I've seen have looked like somebody was reading the PnP spec, and trying to implement it for Linux based on that.
The patches I'd actually accept would be something that made sense on a larger scale, and were able to support PnP as a side effect.
Quite frankly, PnP as a standard sucks. Anything that just reads the PnP standard and tries to force that on Linux will be most definitely ignored.
Linus
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