On May 3, 10:54pm, Mouse wrote:
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} > There is also the idea of having a module specify the device(s)
} > it handles by vendor:product
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} Isn't that rather restrictive in what buses it permits supporting?
I suppose that other types of identifiers could be used.
} Indeed, PCI (and close relatives, like PCIe) and USB are the only
} things I can name offhand that even _have_ vendor:product. (Of course,
} I'm sure there are lots of buses out there I've never heard of, or
} don't know enough about.)
Only buses where the devices are identified would work. For
buses like ISA where you have to probe the devices, it would not
be workable.
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