> On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 11:59:33AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> > > On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 11:41:14AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> > > >
> > > > PnP is an infrastructure facility used by drivers to detect and
> > > > configure hardware. The side-effect you were relying on was that the
> > > > old code would indiscriminately configure any and all PnP hardware
> > > > regardless of whether a driver had requested it to.
> > >
> > > Why is this not desirable?
> >
> > I've already asked you to do your own research, and I meant it. The
> > simple answer is "if we don't have a [working] driver for it, we don't
> > want it".
>
> But we do have a working driver for the AWE64. Or rather, it worked fine
> before the new PnP code was comitted, now it doesn't. It seems to me that
> this indicates a deficiency in the new PnP code. Isn't that correct?
No.
I have already explained to you that the AWE64 driver that you were
using (one actually of _three_ that we have) only worked with PnP cards
as an accidental side-effect of the old PnP code. Now that the PnP
code has been fixed, the brokenness of the old driver is exposed.
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