Re: Support on vendor id and device id

[Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>]

On 2/27/2018 11:16 AM, Harsha Rao wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I am developing a new wifi driver for our sdio based wifi device.
>
> I see that SDIO_VENDOR_ID and SDIO_DEVICE_ID for our device (We had
> bought the SDIO IP from 3rd party)  is already  been used by some
> other vendor and its already into staging .
>
> Please suggest me how can I move forward to submit the driver for staging.

Can you be more specific about the conflicting vendor id and device id?

> Is there a way to reconfigure the values in the SDIO host for
> different value or does Linux allow two drivers with same values to
> survive mutual exclusively

First come first serve. When a device is detected, the driver core looks 
for drivers supporting it based on device table and the first that 
successfully returns from the .probe() callback is bound to the device.

Regards,
Arend