Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:31:30 -0500 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Re: Autoconfiguration: Original design scenario |
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Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>: > Giacomo, please, please, please, just use the info in the > MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE entries for your autoconfigure program.
Giacomo will probably answer definitively, but I believe he is already generating all of the PCI, PNP, and module probes by script. We're planning to ship the probe table generator with a future CML2 version.
> One other autoconfigure problem that I don't think anyone has mentioned, > USB devices that only show up when they want to transfer data to/from > the host. Like all of the Palm based devices. They don't stay > connected long enough for a "probe all the busses" tool like > you are currently developing to detect.
Which is why the "standalone" mode of the autoconfigurator turns all that stuff modular. The autoprobe doesn't, it's intended to generate a facilities report that can be used to tune by hand. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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