Re: Linux 2.6.11.1

[Alan Cox]

On Sad, 2005-03-05 at 22:06, Lee Revell wrote:
> Driver updates are a hard problem.  Nothing annoys users more than
> unsupported hardware.  But if you aggressively add support for new
> devices you can break things that have worked for ages.

You can however plan for them in advance. Guess why the -ac tree has an
ide
option to grab any otherwise unknown ide controller and stuff it in bios
tuned
DMA modes ?

Similarly you can generally apply "just PCI id" patches

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