"Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
> 
> Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>:
> > > Not in this case.  If the DMI read fails, the worst-case result is the
> > > user sees some ISA extra questions.
> >
> > No, the worst case is if the DMI read says no ISA slots when there
> > really are some, and the user misses a driver that he needs.
> 
> Nobody has told me this is a real failure case yet.  To cause a problem,
> the situation would have to be that DMI read fails to detect a card in
> use in an ISA slot.  It's OK if it reports no slots when all slots are
> empty.

Well, I just popped in an old 3com 509TP network card (non-PnP) into my
main box and dmidecode still failed to show the single ISA slot, only 4
PCI and 1 AGP.

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						Brian Gerst