Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>:
> > With this change, generating a report on ISA hardware and other
> > facilities configured in at boot time would be trivial. This would
> > make the autoconfigurator much more capable. Best of all, the only
> > change required to accomplish this would be safe edits of print format
> > strings.
>
> Better: create a /proc/driver and every driver will register in it.
> This file can help some bug report (and not only autoconfigurator).
That would be fine with me. But wouldn't it involve adding a new
initialization-time call to every driver.
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