Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 08:45:25PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Chris Wright wrote: >>> 2) you can add them >>> runtime in userspace (and for pcmcia too after patch in question is >>> applied), so we've historically avoided that kind of patch for -stable. >> >> Due to distro installer environments, and very poor support for making >> dynamic PCI IDs persistent once added, what you describe is more of a >> goal than reality. > > But distros can easily add the device id to their kernel if needed, it > isn't something that the -stable tree shoud be accepting. Otherwise, we > will be swamped with those types of patches... >
Oh sure, leave the distros swamped with them instead. :) And they all have to do it separately, meaning they don't stay in sync and they duplicate each other's work... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
