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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: LINT settings
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>Well there are at least half a dozen entries in GENERIC which use port 
>0x300 so one more shouldn't hurt...

Yes it could.  Some probes are destructive and screw up other devices.
E.g., probing one or both of the bt and uha devices screws up the other
if the port is the same.

I think GENERIC should have all devices turned off by default and there
should be a fancy config to turn them on.

Bruce