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Date: 04 Jan 2002 17:39:00 +0200
From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
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davej@suse.de (Dave Jones)  wrote on 03.01.02 in <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201031540390.7309-100000@Appserv.suse.de>:

> On 3 Jan 2002, Kai Henningsen wrote:
>
> > Now, if we cannot reliably autodetect hardware, we should always make it
> > possible to override this manually, and maybe also inform the user that
> > we're not certain. But that's no excuse not to try to autodetect when the
> > user has *not* overridden us.
>
> Autodetecting non-pnp ISA hardware safely is something of a black art.
> Numerous drivers just hang if you load them and the card isn't present,
> or there's another card which answers on the same port/address.

Well yes, that's why I asked for the override and the warning.

MfG Kai
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