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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
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Subject: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?
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David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>:
> Eric, what are you doing to do if you _do_ detect that there are ISA slots 
> present? If there are ISA (not isapnp) cards present, you'll _have_ to 
> start asking 'difficult' questions. So why bother to detect the ISA slots 
> automatically? Just hide the ISA_SLOTS option in idiotmode. 

You have my intentions backwards. What I'd like to be able to do is
suppress ISA_SLOTS when there are detectably *no* ISA cards.  Unfortunately
I have had it demonstrated that the DMI tables can give false negatives
(false positives would not have been a showstopper).
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