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From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI changes for 2.5.69
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 23:36:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030522223616.GA5830@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10536411591193@kroah.com>

On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 03:05:59PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:

 > One may write new PCI device IDs into the new_id file:
 > echo "8086 1229" > new_id
 > 
 > which will cause a new device ID (sysfs name 0) to be added to the driver.

Why not call the probe routine at this point ?
This would do away with the need for the probe_it file.
The only downside I can see is that if we have a script
echoing lots of device id updates, we're going to lots of
additional (-ENODEV) probes.

		Dave


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-22 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-22 22:02 [BK PATCH] PCI changes for 2.5.69 Greg KH
2003-05-22 22:05 ` [PATCH] " Greg KH
2003-05-22 22:05   ` Greg KH
2003-05-22 22:06     ` Greg KH
2003-05-22 22:06       ` Greg KH
2003-05-22 22:06         ` Greg KH
2003-05-22 22:06           ` Greg KH
2003-05-22 22:06             ` Greg KH
2003-05-23  6:07             ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-23  7:02               ` Greg KH
2003-05-22 22:36   ` Dave Jones [this message]
2003-05-22 22:48     ` Greg KH

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