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Message-ID: <mj+md-20061113.094333.4571.atrey@ucw.cz> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:45:22 +0100 From: Martin Mares <mj@....cz> To: Ben Collins <ben.collins@...ntu.com> Cc: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@...cast.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Pushing device/driver binding decisions to userspace Hello! > No, in a lot of cases, it's not a deficiency. Take the entire > drivers/ata/pata_*.ko list. All of them match an IDE driver, however the > pata driver most times does not support all the same PCI id's for the > matching ide driver. > > Also the other case I gave where there is an alsa driver and a media > driver for the same chipset, is by design. It can't be helped. There > actually is a case for wanting one driver or the other in the case of > the exact same hardware, depending on the users desire. If you have two drivers for the same device, there is no problem -- just insmod one of the drivers. The ugly cases are the "a b / b c" described in the first mail of this thread -- however, are these really sane? Shouldn't they be split to multiple drivers? Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@....cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth A bug in the code is worth two in the documentation. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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