Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2002 23:09:24 -0500 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Re: Aunt Tillie builds a kernel (was Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution) |
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Alex Bligh - linux-kernel <linux-kernel@alex.org.uk>: > & this has a seemingly obvious solution, which is, if the autoprobe > stuff is selected, and, after presentation of the initial list > of drivers, plus comments like 'Network card: none', 'Sound card: none', > say 'We may have missed some stuff if you have an old computer, press > Y if what we've detected doesn't find all your hardware', and if > they press Y (only), select as modules every ISA driver except > those, which when loaded on a system not containing the relevant > card, can cause a hangup; thus deferring the autoprobing until > boot time.
Not a bad idea, but it conflicts with one of the goals of `make autoconfigurator', which is completely hands-off opration.
Giacomo Catenazzi thinks he has collected enough "safe" probes to find effectively all ISA devices, by grovelling through various bits of /proc. So this problem may get solved directly. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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