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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:16:08 -0500
From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution
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Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>:
> > With this change, generating a report on ISA hardware and other
> > facilities configured in at boot time would be trivial.  This would
> > make the autoconfigurator much more capable.  Best of all, the only
> > change required to accomplish this would be safe edits of print format
> > strings.
>  
> Better: create a /proc/driver and every driver will register in it.
> This file can help some bug report (and not only autoconfigurator).

That would be fine with me.  But wouldn't it involve adding a new
initialization-time call to every driver.
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