[PATCH] Implement Symbol-Based Video Driver Autoloading
Stephane Marchesin
marchesin at icps.u-strasbg.fr
Thu Nov 15 09:23:23 PST 2007
On 11/15/07, David Nusinow <dnusinow at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> The attached patch uses the symbols in the pci-reworked drivers to
> determine the correct video driver to load when none is specified by the
> config file. Before committing it though, I'd like some advice about
> certain aspects I'm not happy about:
>
Hi,
Actually, I don't think it's so much a good idea. It makes sense for the
drivers to move away from long, hard to maintain, pci id lists, and use
smarter card detection. So that won't work in this case. FWIW we're doing
that already.
Stephane
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