cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config chapter.sgml

[Marc Fonvieille]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:51:32PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > In fact with old ISA cards and 4.X, you have to pass some settings to
> > the card (I/O port, IRQ, etc.), and the easiest way to do it is via the
> > kernel config line (it's possible to override at boot these settings but
> > not easy, if my memories are good), so in that case the modules bring
> > nothing.  To sum up, it may be a good thing to push ISA NIC users to
> > build a custom kernel to support their cards.  I'd even add does it
> > worth to talk too much about ISA NICs?
> 
> Non PNP cards, yes.  In 5.x, you can add a few lines to loader.conf
> and/or device.hints and load just fine.
>

Yes, that's exactly the same thing for example with the sound cards, in
the case of non-PnP ISA cards, the modules should not be used if your
card does not use default settings (I'm talking about 4.X).
I have a question, does kernel.conf settings may be used to pass
settings to kernel modules under 4.X?

Marc