Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Displaying/modifying PCI device id tables via sysfs | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 03 Mar 2003 20:02:54 +0000 |
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On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 18:25, Greg KH wrote: > > 2) Add new IDs at runtime and have the drivers probe for the new IDs. > > Ick, no. If a driver really wants to have a user provide new ids on the > fly, they usually provide a module paramater to do this. A number of > the USB drivers do this already (and to be honest, they have caused > nothing but trouble, as users use that option for new devices, that the > driver can't control at all due to protocol or register location > changes.) > > In short, it's not a good idea to allow users to change these values on > the fly, the driver author usually knows best here :)
I would strongly disagree with that statement. The majority of users run kernels a little behind the times, and in may cases adding the PCI id is just fine. It doens't want to be casual and uncontrolled but it does want to be possible
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