On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 01:42:37 +0200
Luc Verhaegen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 01:30:53AM +0200, Stefan Tauner wrote:
> > The PCI IDs are generic VIA IDs. Only Biostar IDs are those of the LOM, but
> > that would not be a good choice for ID. Accept the generic IDs (+ DMI
> > string)
> > for now because this will be generic soonish(tm) anyway.
>
> > + {0x1106, 0x3177, 0x1106, 0x3177, 0x1106, 0x3116, 0x1106, 0x3116,
> > "^KM266-8235$", NULL, NULL, P3, "Biostar", "M7VIQ",
> > 0, OK, w83697xx_memw_enable_2e},
>
> "KM266-8235" is "VIA Northbridge marketing name"-"VIA Southbridge
> marketing name with VT removed".
>
> This DMI string is not unique at all.
true, yet there is no real alternative and a rationale was given to why
it does not really matter much anyway. just ranting does not really
help in this case :)
--
Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner
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