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Re: RFC: discover 1 -> 2 transition plan for Debian



On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 03:37:50PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Jeff Bailey]
> > I'm curious, though.  The new hotplug seems to have the goal of
> > replacing discover.  It may make sense to use that instead of
> > discover2 on 2.6 based systems (since it's likely that everyone will
> > want it anyway)
> 
> I've experienced some problems with hotplug earlier, as it is using
> the info in /lib/modules/<version>/modules.*map directly.  If more
> than one module claim to support a given PCI id, it seem to pick any
> one of them.  The tools having a separate hw database have an
> advantage here, where the maintainers can select which of these
> modules to use for a given PCI id.  Is this problem solved with newer
> hotplug versions?

I haven't run into that, but I'm adding the hotplug maintainers to the
cc: to let them comment. 

Tks,
Jeff Bailey

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