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    SubjectRe: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?
    On 3 Jan 2002, Kai Henningsen wrote:

    > Now, if we cannot reliably autodetect hardware, we should always make it
    > possible to override this manually, and maybe also inform the user that
    > we're not certain. But that's no excuse not to try to autodetect when the
    > user has *not* overridden us.

    Autodetecting non-pnp ISA hardware safely is something of a black art.
    Numerous drivers just hang if you load them and the card isn't present,
    or there's another card which answers on the same port/address.

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    | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
    | SuSE Labs

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