Re: 2.6.14-1 in incoming, status and future
Eddy Petrişor <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com> writes:
> On 10/31/05, Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> wrote:
>> > We are not using discover2 yet, but discover1, and i thought the way to the
>> > future was to use hotplug only, as ubuntu did ?
>>
>> In installer itself, for sure. But discover2 has some important
>> feature that cannot be satisfied by hotplug or any other yet.
>
> And, let me guess, you are keeping the name of the feature under a
> secret, right? :-)
No no.
Well, discover has some nice things like:
- Allow us to fix detection problems without to need a kernel upload;
- Allow by arch specific modules;
- Allow by kernel version specific modules;
- Work in BSD too (or should, since i didn't test it);
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