Prototyping an embedded system, maybe, where you have devices in the
test box that won't be in the production machine. You would want them
to use resources other than those that you want the hardware which
will be present to use.
> If someone is manually configuring something, that means the automatic
> config *failed*.
Not necessarily.
> Why did it fail? It should never fail. Manual config is only giving
> the user to opportunity to get something wrong.
Agreed, auto configuration should never fail, but that doesn't mean
that you shouldn't have manual configuration as an option.
John.
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