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Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs stuff for eisa bus [1/3]
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 08:46, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Andries> What use is a very long and very incomplete list?
> 
> A big part of this database contains in fact ISA cards for which an
> EISA config file exists. So it could be trimmed down to 50%, I think.
> I was thinking the database could be useful for ISAPNP (since it uses
> the same IDs).

I think a ".ids" file list is valuable. It can be used for things like
EISA card identification obviously but it also has a big value for
"lseisa" "lspnp" and friends (and hopefully when someone fixes the
device model "lsdev"


Alan

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