From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:11:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:11:07 -0500 Received: from 12-224-37-81.client.attbi.com ([12.224.37.81]:44815 "HELO kroah.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:10:50 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:07:21 -0800 From: Greg KH To: "Eric S. Raymond" , Giacomo Catenazzi , Linux Kernel List Subject: Re: Autoconfiguration: Original design scenario Message-ID: <20020115230721.GA29020@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <3C4401CD.3040408@debian.org> <20020115105733.B994@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <3C442395.8010500@debian.org> <20020115183432.GC27059@kroah.com> <20020115133130.A3197@thyrsus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020115133130.A3197@thyrsus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.20 (i586) Reply-By: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 20:22:18 -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 01:31:30PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Greg KH : > > Giacomo, please, please, please, just use the info in the > > MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE entries for your autoconfigure program. > > Giacomo will probably answer definitively, but I believe he is already > generating all of the PCI, PNP, and module probes by script. We're planning > to ship the probe table generator with a future CML2 version. Why not just have the probe table automatically generated against the current kernel? That way you don't have to release a new version of the autoconfigure program for _every_ kernel version (including the -pre versions.) I feel like I'm sounding like a broken record here... greg k-h