From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: modules.pcimap
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:25:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050117182522.GA8502@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41EB89A5.7040706@multitech.co.in>
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:00:58PM +0530, shyam wrote:
> hi,
> I have implemented the driver using the new PCI driver structure.And I
> am able to load the module but I feel my probe routine does not seem to
> work. I feel the driver is not getting bound to the device at all.
Do you have a pointer to your code anywhere so we could review it?
> There is one more thing that I have come to know. Kay maybe you can
> understand my problem now. I see that the vendor ID for the Exar card is
> being supported by the 8250/16550 device driver part of the kernel.
> Hence I think that the this serial driver is getting control of the
> device and getting bound to it. Hence my driver can not probe the device
> now. Is there anyway other than recompiling the kernel without this
> driver which can override this kernel driver so that I can load my
> driver as module and register to the device.
No. So your driver also binds to the same device as another one? Does
it do something different from the other driver?
thanks,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-17 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-17 9:59 modules.pcimap shyam
2005-01-17 11:48 ` modules.pcimap Jan Zwiegers
2005-01-17 14:42 ` modules.pcimap shyam
2005-01-17 18:25 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-01-18 20:35 ` modules.pcimap David Brownell
2005-01-18 20:43 ` modules.pcimap Greg KH
2005-01-19 6:23 ` modules.pcimap Jan Zwiegers
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