configurable device (and other) tables in the kernel ?

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 08:29:41AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
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> : All of the above can be fixed - especially the documentation part,
> : but that doesn't mean that the hints mechanism can already do
> : what i was asking; there is still a bit of work to do...
> 
> True.  Things could be better documented.
> 
> However, the more fundamental problems remain.  It does no good to
> have a fancy binary loader with every kind of plug and play info if
> few of the drivers in the system use tables in a consistant way.
> That's a big problem to solve...

well but that also can be fixed. e.g. many of the usb and quirks
tables, i think, are already reasonably structured so if
a mechanism is in place it won't take much work to adapt
them, maybe one at a time.

cheers
luigi