Floppy Support

[Erik H. Bakke]

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On Monday 05 May 2003 14:22, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : Or use modules..
> : The vast majority of drivers are loadable as modules. It would be
> : feasible to standardise the PCI ID tables of drivers and then generate a
> : list from it which you can use to load modules for cards you find.
>
> There's more than just pci ID.  Also, there are a couple of drivers
> that don't base their decision on the pci id, but other things in the
> headers to attach to all devices of a certain class.  This makes
> autoloading a little harder.
>
Wouldn't this be the drivers that would always be on the kernel floppy?

I think the drivers that would be candidates for autoloading based on PCI ID 
would be more specialized drivers, and typically not drivers for things such 
as IDE controllers, bus bridges, etc.

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Erik H. Bakke
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