On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 09:27:38PM +0100, Christoffer Dall wrote: > > > What you're suggesting would let users specify that > > > a serial driver should handle a NIC hardware, no? That sounds much much > > > worse to me. > > > > The flag (and wildcard match, if applicable) would be set by the driver, > > not by the user. Whereas PCI's "new_id" and the "new_compatible" being > > suggested in this thread would allow exactly that, assuming the driver > > doesn't reject the device in the probe function. > > > ok, fair enough, but still, I don't see the _generic_ need for having a > kernel feature that allows some random driver to bind to a device, but > then again, I'm not an authority in this area. Again, this is already there, and has been for years with no problems, so I really don't understand the issue you have with it. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
