[PATCH] Implement PCI ID-based Driver Autoloading

[David Nusinow]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 05:09:22PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
>    The attached patches implement PCI ID-based driver autoloading. The
> drivers have to be pci-reworked. They also remove the previous autoloading
> schemes, including my half-baked text file-based version and the vendor id
> based heuristic.
> 
>    If a driver wants to support everything from a particular vendor, they
> claim the vendor ID normally and set the device id as UINT16_MAX.
> 
>    A missing feature is if multiple chips claim the same ID. Currently it
> will just load the first such driver found, but ideally there should be a
> way for drivers to specify a priority or override somehow in the future.
> 
>    Comments and criticisms are greatly appreciated. If no one speaks up
> I'll apply these in a week to master.
> 
>  - David Nusinow

Sorry about the duplicate send. It didn't look like git-send-email had
worked for me. These are the same patches as the independent mails.

 - David Nusinow