Re: Displaying/modifying PCI device id tables via sysfs

From: Greg KH (greg@kroah.com)
Date: Mon Mar 03 2003 - 19:31:20 EST


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,

greg k-h
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