Matt Domsch (Matt_Domsch(a)dell.com) said:
> Why isn't the driver fixed to populate sysfs properly?
Just-in-time programming. Corey submitted class_simple support this
evening.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111654581209165&
That'll handle the kernels where it exists, still need to handle the
cases where it doesn't. I'll add a test for existance of the dev
file, and fall back to creating the devnode here if it doesn't exist.
Well, if we're talking about current releases, I'd just assume the kernel
is fixed; the FC package doesn't really need 2.4 support, for example.
> How many, if any, of these modules can be detected for the
> proper hardware?
You're thinking of using kudzu instead? Possible, though the data is
scattered throughout ACPI and SMBIOS tables, when it is known. That's
more than I was up for this week. Future incremental change?
I'm thinking of using *something*; we (in HEAD) have some ACPI-based
PnP code, so grokking in other places could be used. It's better than
making people edit a config file.
Bill