--- Mike Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 04:34, Net Llama wrote: > > > Oh gawd no. Kudzu is the biggest flaming POS i've come across in > all of > > Linux. I've stopped counting the number of boxes that its locked > up, > > fubarred or othewise rendered useless. > > The part of kudzu I am impressed with is it's auto-detection of added > / > removed hardware during boot up. Particularly sound. Like similar
I don't pretend to (want to) know how kudzu performs its 'magic', but if i had to guess its not that impressive of a feat. Just creating a database of stuff like lspci and then comparing it at each bootup would allow the box to 'find' new hardware. > Obviously, whoever is writing kudzu is maintaininga data base of > quirks and > features of each device as encountered. better he does, than I have > to. But he's not doing such a great job of it. I've seen quite alot of hardware get mis-identified. > Sour grapes Llllama, auto detection aint that tuff, hell, the > unmentionable > os has had it since 1995, so it's been a long time coming. If kudzu > aint that > good, there has to be a better one, real soon now. It's needed. I dunno. I realize this isn't the univeral answer, or the popular one, but i'm of the the school that i'd rather 'detect' and configure my own hardware. Makes for a much easier kernel building experience down the road. Now if kudzu was somehow extended so that it worked its 'magic' into a kernel config proces (auto-populating all the relevant choices), that would amaze me. Auto-Loading a tulip module is boring. ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.