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Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 14:55:57 -0400
From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@conterra.com>
To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Loss of Functionality with newpnp
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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?



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