Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Mar 2003 16:31:20 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Displaying/modifying PCI device id tables via sysfs |
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On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 02:56:23PM -0600, Matt Domsch 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. > > Yes, I've done this kind of thing too with aacraid. I was hoping to > generalize the process and build upon the ID table already present.
Ok, you and Alan have convinced me :)
I'd like to see what your patch looks like to add this kind of support.
thanks,
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