Re: [PATCH] Fixup warning for acenic

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Thu, 20 Mar 2003 14:28:36 -0500


On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:13:43AM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> Hmmm ... so we're going to get a compiler warning for every hotpluggable
> driver?

Only for the ones that do not actually use the module_device_table,
which is an unusual case.

Adam Richter(sp?) went through and added PCI module_device_tables to
drivers which do not use the PCI API. From the programmer's standpoint
this looks like dead code -- but it's actually very useful, because it
exports the PCI ids to userspace in
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.pcimap, where installers, hardware
configurators, and other tools pick up the data and do something useful
with it.

Jeff

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