Re: [PATCH] PCI serial card support

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 02:23:32PM +0200, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> > 
> > Why not use PCI ID to support this particular card?  This way Donald doesn't
> > have to support all cards, but the base is laid out so more cards can be 
> > added
> > in the future.
> 
> I have nothing against that. But in any case I think there has to be
> this override functionality support. Just make it a bit harder for user
> to type so they know it is advanced feature :).

How about implementing the flag but not listing it in --help output, and
not documenting it (oh wait, we didn't document serial.mod anyway ;-)) ?

> Of course you can dynamically check if PCI module is there and
> then ask identification information from there.

Sounds good.  But do we have support for "weak" symbol dependencies a la
dlym() ?

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Robert Millan

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