[Ksummit-discuss] Schedule slot suggestion- Generic drivers - core topic
Jiri Kosina
jikos at kernel.org
Fri Oct 28 21:29:00 UTC 2016
On Fri, 28 Oct 2016, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 02:16:59PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > Having some generic device driver load, prior to a specific driver,
> > and issues / maintenance issues that come with the hacks currently in
> > place to support this / re-invent the wheel to support this per
> > subsystem.
>
> We have hacks for this today? What do you mean by this, quirks?
I have to maintain a device-id list that explicitly enumerates "these
devices can be handled by generic driver, but would better be handled by
specific driver", in the generic driver itself. Which is horrible.
It'd be nice for the specific driver to be able to claim this property
somehow.
Thanks,
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
More information about the Ksummit-discuss
mailing list