Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Jan 1999 11:36:44 +0000 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: *** next draft - press release *** |
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On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > * Poor ISA PnP support. It's difficult to support well at all, but > > the fact that it's currently done by a user-land tool that is > > independent of kernel resource allocations is a serious problem. > > No thats not the problem really. The problem is that isapnp has a user > interface flaw (it hasnt got one basically). If you had a nice > Gnome/KDE/whatever GUI front end to isapnp you wouldnt even have noticed > it wasnt in the kernel. > > Its a user-interface problem.
I disagree here. For something as simple as ISA PnP, doing the hardware access is userspace is not good.
I particularly like the isapnp modules which the ALSA people have. I don't know the PnP "protocol" well, but it seems to be about as simple as is reasonable, while still providing good user (/proc/isapnp) and kernel (functions like PCI - find_device(), &c) interfaces.
In short, I think it fits the "hardware detection framework" which Linus said was the only PnP which we would be seeing on kernel.org...
Matthew.
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