On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 06:56:40PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:17:18PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > > > I haven't found a single distro that (a) makes it trivial to add > PCI IDs at > > > > > install time, and then (b) ensures those PCI IDs remain persistent > for each > > > > > boot. We are not at all to the "just works" stage yet. > > > > > > > > Well, SuSE handles this just fine, but I do notice that RHEL 5 > disables > > > > the new_id stuff entirely, so I can see why you might get this > > > > impression :) > > > > > > That's news to me. I didn't even realise it was possible to disable > this. > > > Pointer? > > > > Jon Masters told me this last week at FreedomHEC, so I don't have a > > pointer to the patch that disables it, sorry. > > Either there's some miscommunication, or bonghits. > > (18:54:00:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:kernel-2.6.18)$ kdiff > vanilla/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c linux-2.6.18.noarch/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c > (18:54:10:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:kernel-2.6.18)$ > > And as there's no CONFIG option other than CONFIG_HOTPLUG (which we obviously > enable) > I don't see any reason why this wouldn't be enabled in RHEL5. > (And I think mdomsch would have probably had a fit if he found out we were > disabling it, but that's another story ;-)
I thought so too, which is why I was so surprised when Jon said it. Jon, is this really true, or was it the symptom of the 3rd pot of coffee you were on that day? :) 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/
