Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Nov 2002 22:10:25 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: A Kernel Configuration Tale of Woe |
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On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:21:22PM +0000, Roger Gammans wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:05:31PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 19:28, Dennis Grant wrote: > > > Agreed - so then the association between "board" and "chipset" must be capable > > > of being multi-valued, and when there is a mult-valued match there must be some > > > means of further interrogating the user (or user agent) for more information. > > > > Much simpler to just include "modular everything" and let user space > > sort it out. Guess why every vendor takes this path > > Is there a tool though to map bus (PCI,USB etc) id's back > onto modules which are likely[1] contain driver for them.
That's exactly what the hotplug package does.
See http://linux-hotplug.sf.net/ for more info. Odds are it's already installed on your box :)
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