Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S275357AbTHGOFH (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 10:05:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S275359AbTHGOFG (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 10:05:06 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust4.swan.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.4]:26755 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S275357AbTHGOEO (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 10:04:14 -0400 Subject: Re: TI yenta-alikes From: Alan Cox To: Russell King Cc: Tim Small , Pavel Roskin , linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20030807141650.C25908@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <200308062025.08861.daniel.ritz@gmx.ch> <20030806194430.D16116@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20030806203217.F16116@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <3F317FD7.6020209@buttersideup.com> <20030807100211.A17690@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <1060258695.3123.36.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <3F324DDE.3040409@buttersideup.com> <20030807141650.C25908@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1060264823.3123.53.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 07 Aug 2003 15:00:23 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 792 Lines: 16 On Iau, 2003-08-07 at 14:16, Russell King wrote: > You can do what you're suggesting as long as you take account of the > device itself. However, once you've decided the device isn't setup, > how can the kernel determine exactly what the _correct_ setup of the > device is? You can't say "well, its a PCI1031 device, therefore I'll > select ISA interrupt mode" because you don't know if it has been > wired up that way. Subvendor id I guess - and some kind of heuristic for uninitialized plugin cards (my guess is "PCI" if it was hotplugged). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/