Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759784AbXEVW44 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 18:56:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755837AbXEVW4s (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 18:56:48 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:38515 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756166AbXEVW4r (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 18:56:47 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 18:56:40 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Greg KH Cc: Jeff Garzik , Chuck Ebbert , linux-kernel , Chris Wright Subject: Re: [stable] Wanted: Allow adding new device IDs during the -stable cycle Message-ID: <20070522225640.GG22628@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Greg KH , Jeff Garzik , Chuck Ebbert , linux-kernel , Chris Wright References: <46533314.10206@redhat.com> <20070522184733.GA9357@kroah.com> <46533EA8.7020602@garzik.org> <20070522193538.GA885@kroah.com> <20070522195135.GG12157@redhat.com> <20070522221718.GC2302@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070522221718.GC2302@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1663 Lines: 42 On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:17:18PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > I haven't found a single distro that (a) makes it trivial to add PCI IDs at > > > > install time, and then (b) ensures those PCI IDs remain persistent for each > > > > boot. We are not at all to the "just works" stage yet. > > > > > > Well, SuSE handles this just fine, but I do notice that RHEL 5 disables > > > the new_id stuff entirely, so I can see why you might get this > > > impression :) > > > > That's news to me. I didn't even realise it was possible to disable this. > > Pointer? > > Jon Masters told me this last week at FreedomHEC, so I don't have a > pointer to the patch that disables it, sorry. Either there's some miscommunication, or bonghits. (18:54:00:davej@gelk:kernel-2.6.18)$ kdiff vanilla/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c linux-2.6.18.noarch/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c (18:54:10:davej@gelk:kernel-2.6.18)$ And as there's no CONFIG option other than CONFIG_HOTPLUG (which we obviously enable) I don't see any reason why this wouldn't be enabled in RHEL5. (And I think mdomsch would have probably had a fit if he found out we were disabling it, but that's another story ;-) > > Theres more to this than just PCI IDs though. > > ac97 ID updates, usb id updates, etc, etc. > > USB ids also can be added through sysfs :) oh cool, I had missed that. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - 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/