On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 02:53:53PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 11:47:33AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 02:14:44PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > > I'd like to propose we allow adding new device IDs as part > > > of the -stable process, but only under certain conditions: > > > > Who would be the primary benifactor of this? > > > > The very large majority of users out there use a distro kernel, and they > > provide the ids whenever possible as patches to their kernels, _or_ as a > > config option at startup that adds the ids to the drivers through sysfs. > > It does mean however that there's lots of duplicated work between > distros as everyone adds these patches anyway.
But distros don't all standardize on the same -stable release anyway, so I don't see how a large ammount of duplicated work happens here. > > What's wrong with the current sysfs way of adding new device ids without > > touching the kernel? > > sure, that works in some cases, but for others (quirks etc) it obviously > doesn't. I totally agree, and have never objected to quirk additions in the past. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
