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To: Lakhan Shiva <lakhanshiva@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: cy PCI driver - possible device id's
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In message <CAHC0YgfPmPmOQVmHD_uY8d7qHbHLrc439+j34rvLaqo2PMv2VQ@mail.gmail=
.com>, Lakhan Shiva writes:

>I am working on converting PCI drivers attachments to be table driven.

Can we please invent some kind of "typographic" convention which
allows these tables to be extracted from the kernel source code,
so that we can have an utility which suggests which drivers to
load, by consulting such an extracted table ?

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