From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>, Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pnp & pci structure cleanups
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 14:51:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021230225134.GD814@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021230225012.GA19633@gtf.org>
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 05:50:12PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 11:12:40PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 22:12, Greg KH wrote:
> > > Yeah! Thanks for taking these fields out of pci.h, I really appreciate
> > > it. I'll send this on to Linus in a bit.
> >
> > Argh I was using those to implement a test "pci_compatible" driver so
> > that you could feed new pci idents to old drivers. Oh well
>
> Note that we need a way to do field replacement of PCI id tables.
>
> I've been harping on that to various ears for years :)
And USB id tables. A number of usb drivers are slowly adding module
paramater hacks to get around this, but it would be really nice to do
this "correctly" for all drivers. Somehow...
> <tangent>
> I also want to add PCI revision id and mask to struct pci_device_id.
> </tangent>
Do any drivers need that today? It shouldn't be that hard to do it, and
now is the time :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-30 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-29 11:33 [PATCH] pnp & pci structure cleanups Jaroslav Kysela
2002-12-30 22:12 ` Greg KH
2002-12-30 23:12 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-30 22:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-12-30 22:51 ` Greg KH [this message]
2002-12-30 23:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-12-30 23:59 ` Greg KH
2002-12-31 1:50 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-31 1:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-12-31 2:47 ` Alan Cox
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