Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Thu, 03 Jan 2002 09:31:34 +0000


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.

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dwmw2

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