Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 30 Dec 2002 14:51:34 -0800 | | From | Greg KH <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pnp & pci structure cleanups |
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On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 05:50:12PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 11:12:40PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 22:12, Greg KH wrote: > > > Yeah! Thanks for taking these fields out of pci.h, I really appreciate > > > it. I'll send this on to Linus in a bit. > > > > Argh I was using those to implement a test "pci_compatible" driver so > > that you could feed new pci idents to old drivers. Oh well > > Note that we need a way to do field replacement of PCI id tables. > > I've been harping on that to various ears for years :)
And USB id tables. A number of usb drivers are slowly adding module paramater hacks to get around this, but it would be really nice to do this "correctly" for all drivers. Somehow...
> <tangent> > I also want to add PCI revision id and mask to struct pci_device_id. > </tangent>
Do any drivers need that today? It shouldn't be that hard to do it, and now is the time :)
thanks,
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