On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 02:18:48PM -0700, David Brownell wrote: > > >> - Don't make hotplug calls for USB devices until we have something > >> for them to do. (Essentially these are a new class of event.) > > > > > >Why not? That lets us load drivers based on vendor and product id. The > >interface specific calls let us load protocol specific drivers, giving > >us a semblance of heirachy that a lot of people used to want a few years > >ago (and Johannes provided a patch for a long time ago.) > > I didn't know we had any problems loading drivers based on vendor+product > ... > sure seems like I've been doing it for a few years now!
Doh, nevermind, I shouldn't write on an empty stomach... > Today's MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE, with flags, should be isomorphic to as much > of a hierachy as is really needed. I seem to recall Johannes saying his > patch didn't do everything MSFT seemed to say needed doing, either. I also remember the MSFT documentation being to complex for what is really needed :) Anyway, it was just a suggestion, I need to update diet-hotplug to work with the new fields and see if I can get away with just using the driverfs/kfs files. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
