From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Cc: rml@novell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] add driver matching priorities
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:33:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050210183338.GA9308@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1108055918.3423.23.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 12:18:37PM -0500, Adam Belay wrote:
>
> The second "*match" function in "struct device_driver" gives the driver
> a chance to evaluate it's ability of controlling the device and solves a
> few problems with the current implementation. (ex. it's not possible to
> detect ISA Modems with only a list of PnP IDs, and some PCI devices
> support a pool of IDs that is too large to put in an ID table).
What deficiancy in the current id tables do you see? What driver has a
id table that is "too big"? Is there some way we can change it to make
it work better?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-10 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-28 22:30 [RFC][PATCH] add driver matching priorities Adam Belay
2005-01-28 23:23 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-01-28 23:33 ` Adam Belay
2005-01-28 23:51 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-01-29 0:05 ` Adam Belay
2005-01-29 0:11 ` Al Viro
2005-01-29 2:45 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-10 8:41 ` Greg KH
2005-02-10 17:18 ` Adam Belay
2005-02-10 18:08 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-10 18:12 ` Greg KH
2005-02-10 21:26 ` Adam Belay
2005-02-10 18:33 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-02-10 18:46 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-10 21:32 ` Adam Belay
2005-02-10 18:45 ` Russell King
2005-02-10 21:37 ` Adam Belay
2005-02-25 23:41 ` Greg KH
2005-03-01 0:05 ` Adam Belay
2005-03-01 7:58 ` Greg KH
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