Re: [RFC][PATCH] add driver matching priorities

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 12:18:37PM -0500, Adam Belay wrote:
> 
> The second "*match" function in "struct device_driver" gives the driver
> a chance to evaluate it's ability of controlling the device and solves a
> few problems with the current implementation.  (ex. it's not possible to
> detect ISA Modems with only a list of PnP IDs, and some PCI devices
> support a pool of IDs that is too large to put in an ID table).

What deficiancy in the current id tables do you see?  What driver has a
id table that is "too big"?  Is there some way we can change it to make
it work better?

thanks,

greg k-h
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