On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 01:39:43PM -0700, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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. > As I said, I'm not an authority, just sounded to me like we were trying to build something very generic to solve a very specific case, but I certainly don't want to invent problems that don't exist. -Christoffer -- 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
