Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Mar 2003 14:28:36 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fixup warning for acenic |
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On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:13:43AM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > Hmmm ... so we're going to get a compiler warning for every hotpluggable > driver?
Only for the ones that do not actually use the module_device_table, which is an unusual case.
Adam Richter(sp?) went through and added PCI module_device_tables to drivers which do not use the PCI API. From the programmer's standpoint this looks like dead code -- but it's actually very useful, because it exports the PCI ids to userspace in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.pcimap, where installers, hardware configurators, and other tools pick up the data and do something useful with it.
Jeff
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