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zlatko's page also has a few excerpts from linux-kernel from linus about why it
will not be included in the mainstream kernel in the near future.

"...Anything that just reads the PnP standard and tries to force that on Linux
will be most definitely ignored." -- linus

hope that helps clarify,
ian


Jaroslav Kysela wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Ian Wehrman wrote:
>
> > everyone may have seen this already, but Zlatko Calusic is updating the Tom
> > Lee patches for recent 2.1 kernels - he's been keeping pretty up-to-date.
> > they can be downloaded at http://bjesomar.srce.hr/~zcalusic/linux-pnp/
>
> I didn't mean that Tom Lee's PnP driver doesn't exist for recent kernel -
> I mean that this patch looks unstable for me (for example it didn't work
> on my SMP machine with dual P-Pro at work due bad timing and I did see
> oopses, too). When patch will be included in official kernel distribution
> more people should test this code and more bugs should be removed...
>
>                                                 Jaroslav
>
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