Hi,
If, as Alan described, you can depend on the distro's installation
program to have automatically identified all the hardware possible,
and for the user to have specified and additional (i.e. isa etc)
devices, then could not the autoconfigurator simply see what drivers
are currently in use (via /proc/devices etc), check
/etc/modules.conf for any that don't happen to be loaded at the
time, and use that info to configure the new kernel. Unless there is
some new piece of hardware that the new kernel supports that is
present (and isn't supported by the old one), if linux was installed
properly, you now have all the info you need, no? This removes the
need for the configurator to do any sort of probing, neither are
root proviledges required. Anyway, that's all probably blatantly
obvious etc, so I'll just be quiet now.
Steve
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