Re: Error: firmware not found

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:32:27 +0100 (CET),
Giuliano Pochini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 24-Jan-2005 Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> > Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it> writes:
> > 
> >> This is not good because some cards (in my case the Layla3G and the
> >> Gina3G) have the same PCI card, but different external module.
> > 
> > you mean that you've one of this card and that hotplug loads the wrong
> > module ?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> 
> > if yes, this is a driver bug indeed.
> 
> No, it isn't, because those devices use the same PCI card, that is
> the kernel reports the same PCI ID/subID's. The driver has to load
> the firmware and then it asks the DSP what (if any) external box is
> attached. If it is the wrong driver it exits with -ENODEV.

Hmm, but having two drivers for the identical PCI ID/subID isn't
good.  Isn't it possible to determine in the driver level which model
it is?


Takashi


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