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Date:      Wed, 22 Jan 1997 11:39:17 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        se@freebsd.org (Stefan Esser)
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PCI LKM support added to -current
Message-ID:  <199701220109.LAA10371@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970122011350.se@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> from Stefan Esser at "Jan 22, 97 01:13:50 am"

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Stefan Esser stands accused of saying:
> 
> The file /etc/pcidevices will contain lines with the PCI vendor and device
> ID, and an associated driver object file:
> 
> 0x802910ec      if_ed

Please don't do it like that; put a data structure in the LKM file that
contains this data and then write a utility to take the list of PCI 
device ID's and return a list of LKMs required to cover them.  (You
could add this to the utility that extracts the list of unhandled
ID's from the kernel; just give it a path to where the LKMs live.)

> Regards, STefan

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