On 7/26/05, Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
> I was wondering why a lot of drivers go for subsystem vendor ids
> and subsystem device ids, rather than just going off the vendor ids
> and device ids. For example, I have an MSI K8MM-V motherboard
> (1462:7142), which has onboard graphics using the Via Tech S3
> Unichrome Pro chipset (1106:3108).
>
> A quick look at the drivers for this card show that it detects based on
> the card id, and not on the chipset. This is fairly common.
>
> Wouldn't it be simpler to detect first on the carD
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Dave Airlie wrote:
> After talking to a number of people last week. I think we are the
> point in 7.0 release where we can do this, earlier we would be too far
> from a release...post-release it will be getting impossible....
I don't see that earlier is a bad thing - giving people more time to
test and adjust their code can't hurt, can it? (Not that we can go
earlier in this release, but I'd strongly suggest that changes for 7.1
planning to cause major disruption should plan on integrating earlier
in the release cycle than after the announced feature freeze.)
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