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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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To: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
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Subject: Re: sound and scsi pci MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE entries? (primary for Alan 
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"Adam J. Richter" wrote:
> Hello Alan,
> 
>         Jeff Garzik tells me that you, with some help from some other
> kernel developers, are hacking on the sound drivers right now.  I
> would like to add PCI MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE entries to three of
> the four PCI sound drivers: cmpci, cs46xx and nm256_audio.
> (I have already sent a similar patch to Zach Brown for maestro,
> although that was a port to the new PCI interface.)  This will
> enable depmod to record the PCI ID's that they care about in
> /lib/modules/<version>/modules.pcimap, which, in turn, will
> enable more automated module loading based on hardware configuration.

I responded to Adam in private, but wanted to speak up in public too: 
these changes sound ok with me.  The patches change no code logic, they
export the supported PCI ids to userspace, and make the transition to
the new PCI API a tiny bit easier.

	Jeff


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Jeff Garzik             |
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MandrakeSoft            |          -- Picasso
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