How does auto-detect work in Linux?
I install different version of Linux on my machine and I notice that each distro can do auto-detect on my machine. Unfortunately, not everything is detected so I have to play around the configuration to get it to work. What is detected seems to vary from distro to distro.
I am curious, how does auto-detect work? Is it something that's in the kernel? I have tried to do some searches, but I haven't found any material regarding this subject.
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