From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The plug and play menu is ISA only?
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 01:04:01 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200311230104.02083.rob@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yw1xhe0xcba0.fsf@kth.se>
On Friday 21 November 2003 21:49, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> writes:
> > Is the "plug and play" menu just ISA plug and play only? (It has nothing
> > to do with hotplug or anything else, right? PCI devices are "plug and
> > play", but that's an actual part of the PCI spec. USB is hotplug and
> > play, etc.)
> >
> > Or is this also used for on-motherboard devices in modern systems? (Is
> > it ever likely to be needed on a laptop made in the last five years, for
> > eample?)
>
> The only time you ever need to select ISA plug and play, is if you
> have an old PnP ISA card. You'd know if you did. Modern systems
> don't even have ISA slots.
Shouldn't it be removed the "devices" menu and stuck under bus options->isa
then? (Yeah, not a critical fix. But is this sort of thing a 2.6.1
candidate or a 2.7 candidate?)
Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-23 7:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-22 2:41 The plug and play menu is ISA only? Rob Landley
2003-11-22 3:49 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-11-23 7:04 ` Rob Landley [this message]
2003-11-23 23:19 ` Adam Belay
2003-11-24 4:47 ` Rob Landley
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