In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >Updating pci map information in the kernel requires getting a patch to >the maintainer of the driver, through the kernel lieutenants, and to >Linus. Then it takes a kernel release, which happens increasingly >infrequently for 2.4 kernels and is not very common anyway. So the This is not relevant when using 2.6 kernels, because with the new drivers model if a device is not in the driver IDs table then the driver will not recognize it.
>Moreover, since the kernel allows multiple drivers to claim to support a >device, some do, even if it's based on bad information or even if one >driver does a very poor job with it. Driver authors are sometimes not the >best ones to make such decisions, it's too easy to see your code as the >best. This is a different issue, and I think that it will be fixed in hotplug-ng. But it concerns only a tiny number of drivers. >Actually, this script is a good way to get some useful raw data >about places that discover and the kernel info currently differ. A >modified version (attached) can just report on differences. Output when >run on 2.4.27, ignoring X stuff: 2.4 is not really interesting, try again with a 2.6 kernel. -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
