From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Roger Gammans <roger@computer-surgery.co.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: A Kernel Configuration Tale of Woe
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 22:10:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021127061025.GB2889@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021126232121.A12861@computer-surgery.co.uk>
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:21:22PM +0000, Roger Gammans wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:05:31PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 19:28, Dennis Grant wrote:
> > > Agreed - so then the association between "board" and "chipset" must be capable
> > > of being multi-valued, and when there is a mult-valued match there must be some
> > > means of further interrogating the user (or user agent) for more information.
> >
> > Much simpler to just include "modular everything" and let user space
> > sort it out. Guess why every vendor takes this path
>
> Is there a tool though to map bus (PCI,USB etc) id's back
> onto modules which are likely[1] contain driver for them.
That's exactly what the hotplug package does.
See http://linux-hotplug.sf.net/ for more info. Odds are it's already
installed on your box :)
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-27 6:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-26 19:28 A Kernel Configuration Tale of Woe Dennis Grant
2002-11-26 19:45 ` John Bradford
2002-11-27 10:55 ` Keith Owens
2002-11-27 12:03 ` Roman Zippel
2002-11-27 12:19 ` Keith Owens
2002-11-27 19:01 ` Sam Ravnborg
2002-11-27 19:14 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-11-26 20:05 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-26 23:21 ` Roger Gammans
2002-11-27 6:10 ` Greg KH [this message]
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2002-11-27 17:52 Dennis Grant
2002-11-27 18:01 ` Alex Riesen
2002-11-27 17:47 Mark H. Wood
[not found] <fa.ivlir9v.u14v3p@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.gaum5rv.1j3snhh@ifi.uio.no>
2002-11-27 8:43 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-11-27 10:12 ` John Bradford
2002-11-26 17:57 Dennis Grant
2002-11-26 18:11 ` Andrew Walrond
2002-11-26 18:24 ` Rusty Lynch
2002-11-26 23:46 ` Lee Leahu
2002-11-26 15:35 Dennis Grant
2002-11-26 17:01 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-11-26 17:35 ` Rusty Lynch
2002-11-26 18:04 ` Dimitrie O. Paun
2002-11-26 18:46 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-26 18:48 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-11-26 9:15 Thomas Hood
2002-11-25 19:30 Dennis Grant
2002-11-25 20:00 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-11-26 10:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-11-26 14:44 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-26 12:33 ` Andrew Walrond
2002-11-28 22:09 ` LA Walsh
2002-11-29 1:28 ` Miles Bader
2002-11-29 10:04 ` Andrew Walrond
2002-11-29 10:21 ` Miles Bader
2002-11-25 17:33 Dennis Grant
2002-11-25 18:10 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-11-25 18:58 ` Samuel Flory
2002-11-26 16:58 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-11-26 4:24 ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-11-26 8:21 ` john slee
2002-11-26 8:35 ` Brad Hards
2002-11-26 19:59 ` Otto Wyss
2002-11-27 0:29 ` Alan Cox
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