Re: yet another update to the post-halloween doc.

Jaroslav Kysela
2002-11-06T14:30:51Z

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Dave Jones wrote:

> PnP layer
> ~~~~~~~~~
> - Support for plug and play devices such as early ISAPnP cards has
> improved a lot in the 2.5 kernel. You should no longer need to
> futz with userspace tools to configure IRQ's and the likes.
> - This code is very young, and needs more work, but is more
> actively maintained than the previous ISAPnP work.
> - Report any regressions in plug & play functionality to
> Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>

Please, correct some mistakes:

- old ISA PnP code does not require user space tools, too
- the new code is mostly based on idea to make behaviour same as for PCI
devices (probe, remove etc. callbacks) and to merge the PnP BIOS
access code
- maintaince? the code was nearly complete, almost all device drivers were
converted to support ISA PnP (thus autoconfiguration which has moved to
the new PnP layer); I don't know what you mean that the code is more
actively maintained; it was maintained to satisfy my goals

Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project http://www.alsa-project.org
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