Re: [PATCH] 2.6.0 aic7xxx and aic79xx stale pci_device list entry

[Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>]

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On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 00:25, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> > <snip the rest>
> > -----------------
> > 
> > There are 2 reasons to work this way, and I would very much prefer the
> > adaptec drivers to behave like this:
> > 1) PCI Hotplugging
> > 2) Adding PCI ID's at runtime
> > 
> > While you may not care about 1), a lot of IHV/distros care about 2); eg if
> > Adaptec puts out a card that can be driven by aic79xx but with just a new
> > PCI ID, hardware vendors can just add the ID at runtime and have it work in
> > the (factory) installer etc but only *if the driver is loaded* ....
> 
> Well, if you look at the Adaptec drivers, they already attach to all
> possible IDs for the chips that are supported.  They do this by registering
> a very generic PCI ID table and filtering all requests through their
> own tables.  

May I ask why this is done? It sounds not the right thing that needs all
kinds of special cases in the OS userland...

Greetings,
    Arjan van de Ven

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