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Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 20:27:12 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, G?rard Roudier wrote:

> Thanks for the reply. But my concern is user convenience in _average_
> here. Basically, I want the 99% of users that cannot afford neither
> need nor want PCI hotplug to have their system just dead in order to
> make happy the 1%.

Following this logic, we should just fix the thing for
laptop users and ignore the few folks who run multiple
SCSI busses, right ?

Of course you'll shout bloody murder since you're part
of the 1% now ;)

I guess we want a solution which works for both situations,
instead of people discouraging each other from fixing the
kernel for situations they're not experiencing themselves.

regards,

Rik
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