Re: Device detection?
> No crap, dont think I know that? Im saying there is a *small* amount of
> hardware which it is perfectly safe to probe. And for modules like this it
> would be *ok* to do so.
What you're missing, I think, is that the fact that psaux modprobe's
safely for *you* has nothing to do if it will safely probe for someone
else. There exist some combinations of probes that will crash
*unrelated* cards that just happen to end up on the same range of
ports... this issue used to come up with certain video and network
cards, in particular, if I remember right. It wasn't the people who
*had* the video card who got smashed - it was those who *didn't* but
had some network card that was in the same place...
If I understand new hardware correctly, PCI avoids most of this
problem. That's only "new" systems, though...
_Mark_ <eichin@thok.org>
The Herd of Kittens
Debian Package Maintainer
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