On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Brice Goglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin-Éric Racine wrote: >> Anyhow, the real issue is that generating random lists of "supported" >> hardware, by matching every manufacturer and device ID found in the >> source code, produces false positives, which is not desirable. > > Which "random" lists ???? We extract the list of hardware that the > driver claims to support. The patch may look very simple, but it > actually does his job. If the driver claims more than it actually does > support, the driver needs to be fixed. There's no need for a static > list, neither to change the patch that extracts the list.
That's not correct. The patch generates a very rough list that makes it look like every vendor supports every device. It completely disregards conditional checks that the driver itself does. -- Martin-Éric Racine http://q-funk.iki.fi
