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
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-23 2:27 Matt_Domsch
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=3E63F495.5070005@pobox.com \
--to=jgarzik@pobox.com \
--cc=Matt_Domsch@Dell.com \
--cc=greg@kroah.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mochel@osdl.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.