Re: PnP in 2.2 ?

David Howells (dwh@nexor.co.uk)
Tue, 09 Dec 1997 08:48:36 +0000


>> My configuration manager in it's latest incarnation (albeit only for 2.0.30
>> at the moment), has a patch for the IDE driver to allow it to automatically
>> detect and configure both PCI and PnP IDE devices.
>
> Mmm.. beware of conflicts with existing IDE auto-detection.
>
> Especially for PCI.
> The IDE driver includes code already to detect/enable PCI interfaces
> (not 100% complete in linux-2.1.71, but coming Real Soon Now).

I rewrote the existing IDE auto-detection as part of the patch... it now uses
the configuration manager API instead.

David Howells