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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