Re: CONFIG_PNP: Please change the name

Mike Kilburn (duxmike@iafrica.com)
Sun, 17 Mar 1996 19:00:34 +0200


> Anno Domini 15 Mar 96 at 19:32 wrote

> Not trying to discourage anybody doing development for Linux, this
> is one area where great care must be observed.
> The Notorious Plughg-and-Pray system. IMHO its useless in its best
> and a total disaster on its worst.

One of our engineers is busy adding PnP to our ISA WAN board. He thought
the system was quite nice. After reading the specs from Intel, I also
thought is was a good system. Why do you think its useless? I would
be very interested in any pitfalls you are aware of.