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Subject: RE: PnP model
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
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On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 19:53, Grover, Andrew wrote:
> Ok fair enough. But I think the drivers should always think things are
> handled in a PnP manner, even if they really aren't. ;-) For example,

If this was a post 2.6 argument I would agree. The notion of removing all the
horribly resource code and having ISA legacy drivers probe code do

	my_dev = isa_create_device(&resourceinfo, "soundblaster16");
	my_dev->set_irq = foo;

etc type stuff is nice

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