Re: [ALSA] add __devinitdata to all pci_device_id

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed May 10 2006 - 20:16:39 EST


On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 05:36:21PM +0200, Henne wrote:
> Henne wrote:
> >On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 06:49:24PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >
> > > are you really really sure you want to do this?
> > > These structures are exported via sysfs for example, I would think this
> > > is quite the wrong thing to make go away silently...
>
>
> I tested that on my system.
>
> make oldconfig
> <comment out CONFIG_HOTPLUG>
> <install and booting that kernel>
> <reading vendor device, etc. of built-in devices in sysfs>
> <adding new ID's via new_id>

Hm, I don't think you really disabled CONFIG_HOTPLUG, as that file will
not be present if you disable that option.

So I think your testing was invalid.

thanks,

greg k-h
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