Hi, I've recently adopted the isapnptools package. This package is most useful for 2.2 kernels. However, one of the bug reports (#71007) has a proposal for making it useful with the 2.4 kernel.
In kernel 2.4, ISA PnP configuration can be done using the kernel. When enabled, this kernel option provides a /proc/isapnp interface to which one can simply write the configuration info, in text format. The proposal (in Russell Howe's bug report, #71007) is to simply copy the file /etc/isapnp.kernel to /proc/isapnp (if the files exist) in the isapnptools init script. This seems reasonable enough to me. My questions: is there some other package in debian already doing this? Is there a standard way to configure PnP at boot time? What do you folks do? To complicate matters, the configuration logic may be compiled as a kernel module, meaning the module needs to be loaded before cards may be configured. However, the modutils init script runs AFTER isapnptools. One suggestion is to simply load the isa-pnp.o module in the isapnptools init script. Any problems with that approach? Thanks, -Steve
