Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution

Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-14T16:52:42Z

Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@dplanet.ch>:
> >>Better: create a /proc/driver and every driver will register in it.
> >>This file can help some bug report (and not only autoconfigurator).
> >
> > That would be fine with me. But wouldn't it involve adding a new
> > initialization-time call to every driver.
>
> I think we can add it automatically, modifing one of the
> the modules macros. (this works automatically only for
> trit symbols).

That would be OK. I think there are *very* few drivers left that
aren't modular.

> Hmm. IIRC there is a big module/driver API (for modules) change
> in 2.5 programs (driver registration,...). In this case we should
> only modify the API before it will be effectivelly used, and
> the changes will go automatically in kernel...

This sounds encouraging.
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