modular vs. drivers & PCI IDs

[Adam Jackson]

On Thursday 02 March 2006 00:43, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> I just noticed that the radeon driver doesn't build unless you update
> your server install (and the headers) because it uses a new PCI ID and
> the PCI IDs file appears to be ... in the server (sic !)
>
> I find that disturbing with modular that one has to update the server to
> add PCI IDs to a driver...
>
> So unless somebody here raises an objection in the upcoming couple of
> days, I'll rip the ATI IDs off the server and put them in a file within
> the ati driver module. I may do a couple other drivers that I can build
> here while at it, though I'll let drivers authors deal with most of
> their babies.

The PCI ID list in the server component is indeed horrific, please kill it 
with some suitably violent mechanism.

- ajax
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