Re: [PATCH] PCI changes for 2.5.69

From: Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Date: Thu May 22 2003 - 17:36:16 EST


On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 03:05:59PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:

> One may write new PCI device IDs into the new_id file:
> echo "8086 1229" > new_id
>
> which will cause a new device ID (sysfs name 0) to be added to the driver.

Why not call the probe routine at this point ?
This would do away with the need for the probe_it file.
The only downside I can see is that if we have a script
echoing lots of device id updates, we're going to lots of
additional (-ENODEV) probes.

                Dave

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