dynamic update of usb/pci/quirks tables

[Alfred Perlstein]

* M. Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> [080928 13:01] wrote:
> uscanner_devs and sis_devs aren't quirks.  They are device tables.
> 
> You've repeated ignored the mapping idea that I've posted.  You can't
> just add stuff to tables randomly and expect that to work (says
> someone who has actually done this to lots of drivers in the tree in
> the pccard era).  the driver has to know what kind of device to treat
> it as.
> 
> Putting a translation table into the kernel is much easier and you
> don't have to worry about hokey kludges like what you describe with
> 'patch'.
> 
> Maybe it will work out for the other tables you want to update, but it
> won't work well for device tables.

I really like the idea of using a kmod to just add the new device
strings.. (some form of what Hans did).

-Alfred