Re: PnP in 2.2 ?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <19971207004541.13031@AeroSpace>
By author:    David Fries <[e-mail]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Things like sound cards pose more of a problem especially if there is
> a cdrom hanging off the sound card.  The sound card isn't too much of
> a problem to comile as a module.  It is that cdrom  or harddrive or
> whatever off the ide port on the card that is.  I think the solution I
> heard was to boot, use isapnp, use the same kind of trick labtop users
> used to redetect ide devices on a pcmcia slot.  Not what I would call
> an elagant solution.
> 

This is what initrd was made for.

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