linux-kernel - Re: One Vendor/Device ID multiple instances of driver

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Date:	Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:58:00 -0600
From:	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>
To:	Keith Chew <keith.chew@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: One Vendor/Device ID multiple instances of driver

Keith Chew wrote:
> Hi
> 
> We have a WIFI driver that only supports a single device at a time. We
> want to use 2 devices with the same vendor/device ID, but spawn 2
> instances of the same driver. Each instance will handle a single
> device.
> 
> If we bought the devices from 2 vendors, we'd have 2 DeviceIDs, we can
> modify the driver to look at different IDs, which will solve our
> problem. But how can we achieve this if we wanted to use the same
> device from the same vendor?

The most obvious response is, why does the driver support only a single 
device at a time? Fixing that would be the best solution, as this goes 
against all kernel convention.

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