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Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>:
> Giacomo, please, please, please, just use the info in the
> MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE entries for your autoconfigure program.

Giacomo will probably answer definitively, but I believe he is already
generating all of the PCI, PNP, and module probes by script.  We're planning
to ship the probe table generator with a future CML2 version.

> One other autoconfigure problem that I don't think anyone has mentioned,
> USB devices that only show up when they want to transfer data to/from
> the host.  Like all of the Palm based devices.  They don't stay
> connected long enough for a "probe all the busses" tool like
> you are currently developing to detect.

Which is why the "standalone" mode of the autoconfigurator turns all that
stuff modular.  The autoprobe doesn't, it's intended to generate a facilities
report that can be used to tune by hand.
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