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Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>:
> > > 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.
> > So you want to make it impossible to compile kernels for
> > old machines on the new fast machine standing next to it ?
> 
> I assumed ESR proposed a 'configure for this box' button,
> not the default case.

Exactly.
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