On 27-Mar-00 at 23:32:12,
  Paul Laufer <pelaufer@csupomona.edu> wrote:

>>  sb "compatible" card not listed in the table but
>>  with a know logical device id will not work as before.

> vendor id. And we know what all the ISAPnP ids are for these Creative Labs
> and ESS cards, so I don't see the problem. Besides, I am willing to handle

 if we have (quite) all of them this is no more a problem.

>>  Then you could also take in account
>>  if the card has been initialized by the driver
>>  or not.

> module options, as before. But I also like the multiple detection scheme.
> I had stopped working on it after not hearing back from Alan about the
> idea.

Alan is quite busy..but i'm sure he likes it.. also
because it defaults to multiple=0 (isn't it? :-) , so nothing is changed
for the normal user. 

Here is the latest patch i sent to Linus.. it's against pre3
Eventually you can patch against pre3+thispatch.

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