On Sad, 2005-03-05 at 22:06, Lee Revell wrote: > Driver updates are a hard problem. Nothing annoys users more than > unsupported hardware. But if you aggressively add support for new > devices you can break things that have worked for ages.
You can however plan for them in advance. Guess why the -ac tree has an ide option to grab any otherwise unknown ide controller and stuff it in bios tuned DMA modes ? Similarly you can generally apply "just PCI id" patches - 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/