Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:25:31 +0300 From: Alex Keda <admin@lissyara.su> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: new utility, kmodpatch Message-ID: <495D18AB.4080402@lissyara.su> In-Reply-To: <20090101183026.GA15385@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> References: <20090101183026.GA15385@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
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Luigi Rizzo ?????: > A couple of real life examples: > > kmodpatch umass.ko - @0 0x4050 0x4a5 0x0101 0x4200 > set the kernel to use flags UMASS_PROTO_SCSI | UMASS_PROTO_BBB and > quirks WRONG_CSWSIG | NO_SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE for a certain GSM phone > that implements the umass interface; > > kmodpatch uscanner.ko - @0 0x04b8 0x084a 0 > let uscanner.ko recognise a newly introduced MFP scanner device. It's very good idea! Now I will be able to replace WiFi in my HP laptop with Broadcom --> Intel, previously overwritten it identifier from Broadcom =))) (In HP laptops work only devices whose ID's contains in BIOS.)
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