Re: Autoconfiguration: Original design scenario

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 01:31:30PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Greg KH <[e-mail]>:
> > 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.

Why not just have the probe table automatically generated against the
current kernel?  That way you don't have to release a new version of the
autoconfigure program for _every_ kernel version (including the -pre
versions.)

I feel like I'm sounding like a broken record here...

greg k-h