[geeks] Linux 2.5

[Jochen Kunz]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 09:12:12AM -0500, Caleb Shay wrote:

> Linux has had a working ISAPnP since since at LEAST 1995 
Yes, I know that sort of support, I used it myself (back in the 
days when I was a virgin *ix fellow.) 
But this kind of support was no PnP, as you had to handconfigure
what should be done automagicly by the system. And it is a bad
and evil hack to manipulate hardware with a userland tool. 
This things have to be done by the kernel.
This whole old Linux ISAPnP stuff is the typical Linux quick
and dirty hack. It is sh... Period. 
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         Jochen

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