Re: A Kernel Configuration Tale of Woe

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:21:22PM +0000, Roger Gammans wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:05:31PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 19:28, Dennis Grant wrote:
> > > Agreed - so then the association between "board" and "chipset" must be capable
> > > of being multi-valued, and when there is a mult-valued match there must be some
> > > means of further interrogating the user (or user agent) for more information.
> > 
> > Much simpler to just include "modular everything" and let user space
> > sort it out. Guess why every vendor takes this path
> 
> Is there a tool though to map bus (PCI,USB etc) id's back 
> onto modules which are likely[1] contain driver for them.

That's exactly what the hotplug package does.

See http://linux-hotplug.sf.net/ for more info.  Odds are it's already
installed on your box :)

greg k-h