[Ksummit-discuss] Schedule slot suggestion- Generic drivers - core topic

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Fri Oct 28 21:43:06 UTC 2016


On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 11:29:00PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I agree, but so far, it's the only way we know how :(

> It'd be nice for the specific driver to be able to claim this property 
> somehow.

I also agree, it would be "nice", but I have yet to see a way to do this
in a generic way :(

thanks,

greg k-h


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