Re: [PATCH] pnp & pci structure cleanups

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Mon, 30 Dec 2002 17:50:12 -0500


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 :)

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

Jeff

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