Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jan 2002 13:47:42 +0100 (CET) | From | Alex <> | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? |
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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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