Re: PNP patch into kernel when?
Andrew E. Mileski (aem@ott.hookup.net)
Fri, 6 Dec 1996 23:10:00 -0500 (EST)
> As for the rest of the issues, they _are_ quite tricky. For example with
> my NodeRunner, it _can_ be reconfigured, but probably not without
> rebooting, and as it's an EEPROM, it probably doesn't have that many
> available write cycles. So it would be wonderful to be able to plug in a
> module that lets the configuration manager _know_ it can be reconfigured,
> and do so it if I explicitly authorize it. But doing it without permission
> would be a no-no, and ideally there should be a weighting to suggest that
> changing that device is less favorable then changing other devices.
Yes, this makes sense.
So how about flags like:
- configurable anytime
- needs reboot
- configurable with suervision
- not configurable
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Andrew E. Mileski mailto:aem@ott.hookup.net
Linux Plug-and-Play Kernel Project http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/pnp/
XFree86 Matrox Team http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html