Like it or not, this kind of hardware exists out there, and we need a
painless way to deal with it. I agree that the ISA PnP "standard" is a
hack in the worst way. Luckily it's only the ISA devices that have to
be dealt with in this manner, and those are more and more being replaced
by PCI equivalents.
Isapnptools works, but it really needs some sort of front end so that
it's easier for novice users to use. It was pretty confusing at first
for _me_, and I've been using linux for several years. The only real
need for support in the kernel is to configure boot devices and
non-modularised drivers (pretty rare). This is pretty much limited to
network cards, and most of these have soft-config (non-pnp) modes.
So while it would be nice to have this support in the kernel, I don't
see its exclusion as being a major problem.
--Brian Gerst
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