Adding new PCI IDs without requiring a kernel update
Registered by
Matt Zimmerman
Currently, we must update the entire kernel in order to add a new PCI ID to a driver. Instead, we should provide a simple facility which takes advantage of the capabilities of the PCI subsystem to register new IDs without changing the kernel module.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Matt Zimmerman
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- None
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Scott James Remnant (Canonical)
- Definition:
- Obsolete
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
- Ben Collins
Related branches
Related bugs
Sprints
Whiteboard
- ship a mapping of PCI IDs to modules
- enhance depmod to pick up these new PCI IDs and include them in modules.pcimap
- add install hook to modprobe config to echo to newid
- Not the correct way to handle this. Jockey may implement some of this functionality one day.
- create simple package which ships the necessary configuration and the PCI ID database
(?)
