Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 May 2003 15:48:40 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] PCI changes for 2.5.69 |
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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 :)
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