It really is wise.
The MicroSoft PnP standard is truly a really _bad_ standard. I refuse to
have that kind of setup in my kernel - the whole point with Linux it to
have an operating system that is _better_ than the crud MS keeps throwing
out.
Have you noticed how well Linux autodetects hardware even _without_ any PR
sticker that says "PnP" on it? PnP is just a marketing term. We need some
very minimal support to avoid trampling on some IO ranges etc, but we
don't want anything more than the minimal requirements, because we aren't
going to make the same silly mistakes MS does.
Linus
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