Re: PnP in 2.2

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <[e-mail]>
By author:    Peter Svensson <[e-mail]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> 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.
> 

initrd seems to be the way to go here: it's in user space, but doesn't
require any device drivers to be loaded yet.

	-hpa

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