From: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
To: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
Cc: Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ignore pci devices?
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 18:30:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020910163023.GA3862@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020910134708.GA7836@bytesex.org>
Hi!
> I have a small problem: Some vendor has built a PCI board which
> (ab-)uses the bt848/878 chip in creative ways to do some DMA. It is
> *not* a video card, thus letting the bttv driver control the card isn't
> very useful and causes trouble. The card has no PCI Subsystem ID, so I
> can't identify and blacklist it easily. Thus I need some way to allow
> the users to tell bttv (or the kernel) to ignore that particular PCI
> card.
>
> Is there already something generic for this? Some kernel parameter
> which makes pci_module_init() skip a given PCI device for example?
What about writing a "driver" which will just bind to a given
PCI device, so that the other drivers will see it's already handled?
Have a nice fortnight
--
Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
For every complex problem, there's a solution that is simple, neat and wrong.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-10 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-10 13:47 ignore pci devices? Gerd Knorr
2002-09-10 14:27 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-11 10:51 ` Gerd Knorr
2002-09-11 11:47 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-11 11:48 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-11 12:33 ` Gerd Knorr
2002-09-10 16:30 ` Martin Mares [this message]
2002-09-10 18:42 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-10 18:41 ` Martin Mares
2002-09-10 20:15 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-11 12:20 ` Gerd Knorr
2002-09-11 12:38 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-11 15:37 ` Gerd Knorr
2002-09-11 16:17 ` Alan Cox
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