Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1997-49,: Re: PnP in 2.2

# Re: PnP in 2.2

Peter Svensson (petersv@df.lth.se)
Mon, 8 Dec 1997 10:19:21 +0100 (MET)

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On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Bob Taylor wrote:

> On Sun, 07 Dec 1997 19:17:36 +0100, Peter Svensson <petersv@df.lth.se> writes:
> > 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)?

I may have missed something very important, but when does the kernel read
a configuration file by itself? There are lots of user-level tools that
read configuration files and pass the data to the kernel, but at the
moment I seem to have forgotten when the kernel actually reads a file. :)

And yes, PnP is supposed to only be based on the hardware, in a perfect
world. Unfortunatly, there are lots of imperfections to our world.

Anyway, I'm sure Linus already has enough data to make his decision one
way or the other so... :-)

Peter

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