Re: AGPGart / AMD K7

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 07:42:33PM -0400, Preston A. Elder wrote:
> Final followup,
> 
> If I compile EDAC out of the kernel completely, everything works now.
> 
> This should be resolved though.
> 1) dd.c should produce some kind of warning when it wants to assign a
> driver to a device, but it can't because a driver is already assigned to
> a device
> 
> ie. change:
>       if (!dev->driver)
>           driver_probe_device(drv, dev);
> to:
>       if (!dev->driver)
>           driver_probe_device(drv, dev);
>       else
>           printk(KERN_WARNING "__driver_attach (%s): alreay registered
> with driver %s\n",
>              dev->bus_id, dev->driver->name);
> 
> 2) Possibly a device should be able to have more than one driver
> associated with it - so the AGP driver and EDAC could both use the
> device in question here (though this would probably be a sizable change).

I'm working on this change for PCI devices right now, but it's slow
going due to some other external things (OLS paper that I am woefully
behind on, etc...)

thanks,

greg k-h