Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 04:32:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 04:32:04 -0500 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237]:11512 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 04:31:49 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 From: David Woodhouse X-Accept-Language: en_GB In-Reply-To: <20020103041244.D6936@thyrsus.com> In-Reply-To: <20020103041244.D6936@thyrsus.com> <20020103040301.A6936@thyrsus.com> <20020102211038.C21788@thyrsus.com> <20020102174824.A21408@thyrsus.com> <20020102211038.C21788@thyrsus.com> <3021.1010048894@redhat.com> <20020103040301.A6936@thyrsus.com> <4658.1010049555@redhat.com> To: esr@thyrsus.com Cc: Dave Jones , Lionel Bouton , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel List Subject: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 09:31:34 +0000 Message-ID: <6364.1010050294@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org esr@thyrsus.com said: > > Making it _easier_ for Aunt Tillie to install something like 2.4.10 is > > not necessarily doing her a favour. > But making it unnecessarily harder is *certainly* not a favor. Making it _gratuitously_ harder isn't called for, true - but it's definitely not a case we need to _optimise_ for. I'm surprised you feel the need to do it, but I'll not try and stop you - as long as in doing so you don't make it more difficult for the people who _do_ actually do this all day every day. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/