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SubjectRe: [PATCH] PCI changes for 2.5.69
On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 11:36:16PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 03:05:59PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > One may write new PCI device IDs into the new_id file:
> > echo "8086 1229" > new_id
> >
> > which will cause a new device ID (sysfs name 0) to be added to the driver.
>
> Why not call the probe routine at this point ?
> This would do away with the need for the probe_it file.
> The only downside I can see is that if we have a script
> echoing lots of device id updates, we're going to lots of
> additional (-ENODEV) probes.

Keep reading through the patches :)

greg k-h
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