Re: CONFIG_PNP: Please change the name

Andrew Mileski (dmtech@magi.com)
Sun, 17 Mar 1996 17:36:13 -0500 (EST)

>> One of our engineers is busy adding PnP to our ISA WAN board. He thought
>> the system was quite nice. After reading the specs from Intel, I also
>> thought is was a good system. Why do you think its useless? I would
>> be very interested in any pitfalls you are aware of.
>
>The biggets problem is mixing new with old hardware.

100% correct.

>Of course PNP is very helpfull (Eisa, MCA, PCI) if it works right... the
>question is... does it work right? :)

It will - and if it doesn't, you'll have the source code to hack :-)

-- Andrew E. Mileski --
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