From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Keith Chew <keith.chew@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: One Vendor/Device ID multiple instances of driver
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:58:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <469849C8.9080409@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.6cQieg/J+91tnyM674iETzYudjY@ifi.uio.no>
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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2007-07-14 3:58 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2007-07-14 1:40 One Vendor/Device ID multiple instances of driver Keith Chew
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