Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261937AbVCGRXW (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2005 12:23:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261925AbVCGRXV (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2005 12:23:21 -0500 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:25323 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261940AbVCGRWa (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2005 12:22:30 -0500 Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.11.1 From: Alan Cox To: Lee Revell Cc: gene.heskett@verizon.net, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <1110060362.12513.48.camel@mindpipe> References: <20050304175302.GA29289@kroah.com> <20050305174654.J3282@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <200503051649.58709.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <1110060362.12513.48.camel@mindpipe> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1110215898.3072.65.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:18:20 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 713 Lines: 18 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 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/