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    SubjectRe: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?


    On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Dave Jones wrote:

    > On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Alex wrote:
    >
    > > > You're still going to need user interaction for a lot of these.
    > > That is why I recommended that the textfile is the output of an
    > > interactive hardware-detection tool. Yes, interactive. :-)
    >
    > vim /etc/modules.conf
    > is about as interactive as it gets.

    Modules.conf is not all there is. What if modules.conf resides on an
    scsi-harddisk with an scsi controller who is just making the problem of
    ancient hardware in the first case ? etc.etc. You are running around with
    the underlying assumption that you can - indeed - *acess* modules.conf via
    *already detected* hardware. This is not the same assumption my textfile
    example operates from. My textfile-for-kernel operates from the assumption
    that *almost nothing whatsoever* on hardware is "fixed compiled" in the
    kernel at the moment we're talking about it, and that the precompiled
    modules will probably be loaded from the distro cd etc....

    Later, Alex







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