From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI changes for 2.5.69
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 15:48:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030522224840.GA7244@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030522223616.GA5830@suse.de>
On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 11:36:16PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> 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.
Keep reading through the patches :)
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-22 22:33 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
2003-05-22 22:48 ` Greg KH [this message]
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