Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:33:38 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] add driver matching priorities |
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On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 12:18:37PM -0500, Adam Belay wrote: > > The second "*match" function in "struct device_driver" gives the driver > a chance to evaluate it's ability of controlling the device and solves a > few problems with the current implementation. (ex. it's not possible to > detect ISA Modems with only a list of PnP IDs, and some PCI devices > support a pool of IDs that is too large to put in an ID table).
What deficiancy in the current id tables do you see? What driver has a id table that is "too big"? Is there some way we can change it to make it work better?
thanks,
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