Re: unregistered PCI vendor and device IDs

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On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 04:51:21PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently working on a platform that comes with an FPGA connected to the
> CPU via a PCIe interface The FPGA will eventually integrate several IP cores,
> some of them being open (OpenCores). I would like to mainline any drivers for
> those cores, but that raises the problem of the vendor ID. Is there any
> procedure for providing Linux drivers supporting devices which do not have a
> registered vendor and/or device ID?

Why do you not have a registered vendor device id?  You aren't "allowed"
to create a PCI device without one from what I can tell.

> Would it be acceptable to make vendor and device IDs configurable via
> Kconfig?

You can dynamically add vendor/device ids to drivers from userspace
today, no need to build it in through Kconfig selections.

thanks,

greg k-h
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