Re: PnP in 2.2

Peter Svensson (petersv@df.lth.se)
Sun, 7 Dec 1997 19:17:36 +0100 (MET)


On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Philippe Rivard wrote:

> [SNIP] Not to say that the isapnp tools aren't good,
> but they should at the very least be included in the kernel, to simplify
> everyone's lives.

Why put something that can be in userland in the kernel? My personal view
is that the kernel should be as simple as possible and with as little
policy as possible.

How would you tell the kernel upon boot the things that it needs to know
to initialize the pnp hardware? The microsoft way of having the kernel
reading configuration files is not something I like the sound of.

Peter

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