From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>,
Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Autoconfiguration: Original design scenario
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:02:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020115180219.A11058@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C4401CD.3040408@debian.org> <20020115105733.B994@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <3C442395.8010500@debian.org> <20020115183432.GC27059@kroah.com> <20020115133130.A3197@thyrsus.com> <20020115230721.GA29020@kroah.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020115230721.GA29020@kroah.com>; from greg@kroah.com on Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 03:07:21PM -0800
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>:
> > Giacomo will probably answer definitively, but I believe he is already
> > generating all of the PCI, PNP, and module probes by script. We're
> > planning to ship the probe table generator with a future CML2 version.
>
> Why not just have the probe table automatically generated against the
> current kernel? That way you don't have to release a new version of the
> autoconfigure program for _every_ kernel version (including the -pre
> versions.)
Mainly because there is a certain amount of hand-hacking involved in
turning the raw output of the probe table generator into a usable
probe table.
Giacomo is trying to cut down on this and may eliminate it altogether.
If he doesn't, I'll take a swing at it myself.
--
<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has
never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable
are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent. -- H. L. Mencken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-15 23:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-15 10:17 Autoconfiguration: Original design scenario Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-01-15 10:57 ` Russell King
2002-01-15 12:41 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-01-15 18:34 ` Greg KH
2002-01-15 18:31 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-15 23:07 ` Greg KH
2002-01-15 23:02 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2002-01-15 19:16 ` Russell King
2002-01-16 8:12 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-01-16 15:51 ` Kai Germaschewski
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