Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution

[Eric S. Raymond]

Giacomo Catenazzi <[e-mail]>:
> > 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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