Re: isapnp coldplug, once again

[Jonathan Lyster <info@jslyster.com>]

On Saturday 03 July 2004 23:52, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> A new, reworked version of ISAPNP hardware detection script is attached
> as a patch to the hotplug package.

I'm experimenting with bootable CDs, working up hardware detection for 
essentially any kind of system Linux supports. I recently stumbled onto a bug 
(or perhaps "omission" is more accurate) in the pnp.rc script.

The problem is this: I found a system that uses an ISA pnp network card. The 
pnp.rc script doesn't load a driver for it because the card's identifier 
string (something like @@@5e90 -- I made up the numbers, but the beginning @ 
symbols are included in the card's id string).

The card includes a second, generic identifier string in the form PNP80d6. 
This generic identifier does resolve to a valid driver module.

I'm putting together a modification of your pnp.rc script that uses the 
generic identifier if the initial one doesn't turn up a driver. Would you 
rather do this yourself?


Regards;
   Jonathan

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