From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935693AbXEVWU3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 18:20:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760741AbXEVWUU (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 18:20:20 -0400 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([209.217.80.40]:49003 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758029AbXEVWUT (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 18:20:19 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 15:15:33 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Chuck Ebbert , linux-kernel , Chris Wright Subject: Re: [stable] Wanted: Allow adding new device IDs during the -stable cycle Message-ID: <20070522221533.GB2302@kroah.com> References: <46533314.10206@redhat.com> <20070522184733.GA9357@kroah.com> <46533EA8.7020602@garzik.org> <20070522193538.GA885@kroah.com> <46535164.8080604@garzik.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46535164.8080604@garzik.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 04:24:04PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > Well, SuSE handles this just fine, but I do notice that RHEL 5 disables > > the new_id stuff entirely, so I can see why you might get this > > impression :) > > I looked at distros other than those produced by my employer. > > Apparently you did not. > > This is not how we best serve Linux users. See that ":)" above? Anyway, I'm pretty sure that Ubuntu also handles new device ids through sysfs, or so I was told once, but I don't have a box to test that out on. Oh, and Dell has some userspace tools that also use this interface for adding new ids. thanks, greg k-h