Re: [stable] Wanted: Allow adding new device IDs during the -stable cycle

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
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