In article <87fzf48s6m.fsf@snark.piermont.com>,
Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
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>True enough, but imagine someday we'd like to load drivers at run time
>based on the IDs. For that, we can't leave all the information in the
>driver itself because then we'd have to load and unload every driver
>we have...

This is how autoconf works. We call every driver's probe function...

christos