Re: [PATCH] pnp & pci structure cleanups

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 05:50:12PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 11:12:40PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 22:12, Greg KH wrote:
> > > Yeah!  Thanks for taking these fields out of pci.h, I really appreciate
> > > it.  I'll send this on to Linus in a bit.
> > 
> > Argh I was using those to implement a test "pci_compatible" driver so
> > that you could feed new pci idents to old drivers. Oh well 
> 
> Note that we need a way to do field replacement of PCI id tables.
> 
> I've been harping on that to various ears for years :)

And USB id tables.  A number of usb drivers are slowly adding module
paramater hacks to get around this, but it would be really nice to do
this "correctly" for all drivers.  Somehow...

> <tangent>
> I also want to add PCI revision id and mask to struct pci_device_id.
> </tangent>

Do any drivers need that today?  It shouldn't be that hard to do it, and
now is the time :)

thanks,

greg k-h