Followup to: <E12k4AU-0007Fo-00@the-village.bc.nu>
By author: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > Map PCI device numbers to modules to simplify module selection.
>
> That is a solved user space issue. No kernel help appears needed
>
One thing would be very good to have: non-manifest sections in modules
that describe what devices the particular module is good for. For
PCI, AGP and CardBus, these are PCI device IDs; for ISA PnP these are
PnP device IDs; for ISA it probably needs to be actual code; there
should be equivalent things for NuBus, MCA and what have you.
In Genesis I was intending to use these to feed the kernel the
appropriate device drivers.
-hpa
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