Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 18 Nov 2000 01:17:58 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: sound and scsi pci MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE entries? (primary for Alan Cox) |
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"Adam J. Richter" wrote: > Hello Alan, > > Jeff Garzik tells me that you, with some help from some other > kernel developers, are hacking on the sound drivers right now. I > would like to add PCI MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE entries to three of > the four PCI sound drivers: cmpci, cs46xx and nm256_audio. > (I have already sent a similar patch to Zach Brown for maestro, > although that was a port to the new PCI interface.) This will > enable depmod to record the PCI ID's that they care about in > /lib/modules/<version>/modules.pcimap, which, in turn, will > enable more automated module loading based on hardware configuration.
I responded to Adam in private, but wanted to speak up in public too: these changes sound ok with me. The patches change no code logic, they export the supported PCI ids to userspace, and make the transition to the new PCI API a tiny bit easier.
Jeff
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