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To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de, mark@vmunix.com,
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Subject: Re: PNP and new Sound code ?
References: <199710210846.JAA20825@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
From: Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
Date: 21 Oct 1997 13:08:42 +0200
In-Reply-To: Luigi Rizzo's message of Tue, 21 Oct 1997 09:46:40 +0100 (MET)
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Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> writes:

> I am well aware that my PnP code, as it is now, is not more than
> a manual configuration utility for ISA-PnP cards. It does not want
> to do more, by design and lack of energy on my side. In particular, it
> does not want to be a solution to the problem of resource allocation.
> 
> This does not mean that it is unusable (maybe with minor patches,
> or a little bit more of documentation, if the one that i have
> already written is not enough) on a production system.

I second that. I have no idea about the state of the audio code, but
the PnP stuff seems to work fine and, to repeat myself, I'd really
like to see that in -stable. Now that Jörg told me about
/kernel.config even the manual configuration is not too bad.

tg