From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@Dell.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mochel@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Displaying/modifying PCI device id tables via sysfs
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 19:34:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E63F495.5070005@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20BF5713E14D5B48AA289F72BD372D6803945AB6-100000@AUSXMPC122.aus.amer.dell.com>
Matt Domsch wrote:
> Adding IDs to drivers at runtime is definitely a stop-gap measure, and
> only works when drivers don't need other changes, but it solves an
> important subset of the problem space.
Agreed on both points -- it's a stopgap measure, and also one that
happens solve quite a few cases in the field.
Field-replacement of PCI id tables is a todo item for a while now :)
However, anything beyond PCI id table replacement requires code changes
and recompilation, and that can be handled by existing patch submission
procedures...
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-04 0:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-03 17:57 Displaying/modifying PCI device id tables via sysfs Matt Domsch
2003-03-03 18:25 ` Greg KH
2003-03-03 20:02 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-03 20:56 ` Matt Domsch
2003-03-04 0:31 ` Greg KH
2003-03-04 4:56 ` Matt Domsch
2003-03-04 14:10 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-03-04 20:22 ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-03-04 22:39 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-04 22:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-04 0:34 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-05-23 0:53 ` Rusty Russell
2003-05-24 0:37 ` Greg KH
2003-05-25 4:57 ` Rusty Russell
2003-05-23 2:27 Matt_Domsch
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