08 May, 2007

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• 6179b5562   add new_id to PCMCIA drivers ... Browse Code »

  PCI drivers have the new_id file in sysfs which allows new IDs to be added
  at runtime. The advantage is to avoid re-compilation of a driver that
  works for a new device, but it's ID table doesn't contain the new device.
  This mechanism is only meant for testing, after the driver has been tested
  successfully, the ID should be added in source code so that new revisions
  of the kernel automatically detect the device.

  The implementation follows the PCI implementation. The interface is documented
  in Documentation/pcmcia/driver.txt. Computations should be done in userspace,
  so the sysfs string contains the raw structure members for matching.

  Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle
  Cc: Dominik Brodowski
  Cc: Greg KH
  Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
  Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

  Bernhard Walle

  2007-05-08 03:12:50 +0800