Re: [PATCH] Fixup warning for acenic

Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-20T15:53:50Z

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:47:49AM -0500, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> be. I have been reluctant to change the driver over to the new hotplug
> scheme since in the past there has been a significant number of AceNIC
> users running on older kernels which do not have the hotplug
> infrastructure (2.4.9 etc). On the other hand I don't remember hearing
> from a single person who wanted to use AceNIC in a hotplug
> environment.

2.4.9 of course has the newstyle pci interface! And actual hotplug
PCI support also is in all today singnificant 2.4.9 forks (RH..).

There's even some shim to emulate the pci_driver style interface on
2.2.

Anyway, this table has another use, it's used by userland ools like
installers for selecting the right driver for a given pci device. So
even if it seems unused from kernelspace it has a use.