Re: [PATCH] modutils: ieee1394 device_id extraction

[Kristian Hogsberg]

Ben Collins <[e-mail]> writes:

> On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 06:02:10PM +0200, Kristian Hogsberg wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've been adding hotplug support to the ieee1394 subsystem, and the
> > ieee1394 stack in cvs now calls the usermode helper just like usb, pci
> > and the rest of them.  Next step is to extend depmod so it extracts
> > the device id tables from the 1394 device drivers, which is exactly
> > what the patch below does.
> > 
> > Keith, would you apply this to modutils?
> 
> Any ETA on converting the sbp2 driver to the hotplug/nodemgr interfaces?
> I can either sync the current CVS with Linus as-is, or wait till that is
> done, if you think it will be done soon.

I think you should merge it as-is.  The sbp2 driver will still work
with the hotplug system, it just does it's own probing now.  As for
the ETA, I'll be working on it this weekend, so I hope to have
something ready soon.

Kristian