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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Plug and Play naivety
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> > One would hope the kernel were capable of automatic assignments.  The
> > less user involvement, the better.
> 
> Sure, if all assignments _can_ be handled automatically, I'm all for it.
> 
> But I would like to have the _option_ of overriding automatic
> assignments in case things go wrong.  I've wasted too many hours
> fighting
> "all-knowing" PnP BIOSes and Win95, which, had I the option of setting
> things to what *I* said, would have solved my problems in 2 minutes...

The *kernel* would override the BIOS instead of needing a human to do
the job by mentally setting jumpers (worse than non-PnP hardware, in
that case, if you ask me).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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