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From: Grant Grundler <grundler@dsl2.external.hp.com>
To: Ryan Bradetich <rbradetich@uswest.net>
Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] [RFC] Patch to handle parisc-device quirks/bugs.
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 13:48:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021117204821.026C1482E@dsl2.external.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Ryan Bradetich <rbradetich@uswest.net> of "17 Nov 2002 13:22:52 MST." <1037564572.27005.20.camel@beavis>

Ryan Bradetich wrote:
> > This scheme doesn't fix the device name printout, but that seems less
> > important.
> 
> The quirks fixes the print-outs, plus all these problems are fixed in
> one place, drivers do not even to know there was a problem.

For users, the name printout *is* important.
It helps determine which devices are really in the box and are supported.

grant

      reply	other threads:[~2002-11-17 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-17 19:05 [parisc-linux] [RFC] Patch to handle parisc-device quirks/bugs Ryan Bradetich
2002-11-17 19:33 ` Grant Grundler
2002-11-17 19:56   ` Ryan Bradetich
2002-11-17 20:00 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-11-17 20:22   ` Ryan Bradetich
2002-11-17 20:48     ` Grant Grundler [this message]

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