Re: PnP in 2.2

[Bob Taylor]

On Sun, 07 Dec 1997 19:17:36 +0100, Peter Svensson <[e-mail]> writes:
> 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.

Have you forgotten? Linux/Unix has read configuration files for a *long* time.
Anyway, isn't PnP based on probing the hardware (I'm ignorant in re PnP)?

Bob

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