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Subject: Re: A Kernel Configuration Tale of Woe
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Otto Wyss <otto.wyss@bluewin.ch>
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On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 19:59, Otto Wyss wrote:
> IMO each driver should be able (within resonable limits) to detect the
> hardware it is written for, returning a simple true/false.

Dream on

Also there is a GPL library to do the parts of this (and more) that can
be done as part of kudzu.

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