Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:34:44 -0500 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution |
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Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@dplanet.ch>: > >>Better: create a /proc/driver and every driver will register in it. > >>This file can help some bug report (and not only autoconfigurator). > > > > That would be fine with me. But wouldn't it involve adding a new > > initialization-time call to every driver. > > I think we can add it automatically, modifing one of the > the modules macros. (this works automatically only for > trit symbols).
That would be OK. I think there are *very* few drivers left that aren't modular.
> Hmm. IIRC there is a big module/driver API (for modules) change > in 2.5 programs (driver registration,...). In this case we should > only modify the API before it will be effectivelly used, and > the changes will go automatically in kernel...
This sounds encouraging. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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