> 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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