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Eric S. Raymond wrote: > With this change, generating a report on ISA hardware and other > facilities configured in at boot time would be trivial. This would > make the autoconfigurator much more capable. Best of all, the only > change required to accomplish this would be safe edits of print format > strings. Better: create a /proc/driver and every driver will register in it. This file can help some bug report (and not only autoconfigurator). BTW, my new tests for: memory (request_mem_region) io port (request_region) irq (request_irq) dma (request_dma) are nearly completes. I think every ISA card should registers one of these resources. With the check of register_blkdev, register_chrdev and miscdevices we should have a complete list of the old ISA devices. (this would detect only already detected devices, but autoconfigure is not yet designed for bootfloppies makers). With such new test: no patch to kernel and nearly automatic generation of probes. Some patch are still welcome. I.e.: some people with copy+paste have not changes the driver string. A kernel patch will help distinguish the two drivers. watchdog: to many driver register as 'watchdog' (or 'serial', or 'ps2mouse'. This will create some difficulties to autoconfigurators. A patch will help us (but it would break other userspace tools?) giacomo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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