Re: [stable] Wanted: Allow adding new device IDs during the -stable cycle

Greg KH
2007-05-22T22:20:29Z

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 04:24:04PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> > Well, SuSE handles this just fine, but I do notice that RHEL 5 disables
> > the new_id stuff entirely, so I can see why you might get this
> > impression :)
>
> I looked at distros other than those produced by my employer.
>
> Apparently you did not.
>
> This is not how we best serve Linux users.

See that ":)" above?

Anyway, I'm pretty sure that Ubuntu also handles new device ids through
sysfs, or so I was told once, but I don't have a box to test that out
on. Oh, and Dell has some userspace tools that also use this interface
for adding new ids.

thanks,

greg k-h