Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Thu, 03 Jan 2002 09:24:40 +0000

esr@thyrsus.com said:
> You have my intentions backwards. What I'd like to be able to do is
> suppress ISA_SLOTS when there are detectably *no* ISA cards.
> Unfortunately I have had it demonstrated that the DMI tables can give
> false negatives (false positives would not have been a showstopper).

I suggest you just suppress it anyway unless you're in normal
configuration mode. As you say - you don't need to care too much about
ancient hardware, and if they have ISA cards they're going to _need_ to
know what's in the box anyway. 

--
dwmw2




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