Re: ide double init? + Re: BUG: Current 2.5-BK tree dies on boot!

Alan Cox
2002-09-19T13:22:16Z

On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 12:14, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 2.5 is reorged big time it seems, pci_register_driver() ->
> drier_attach() -> do_driver_attach() -> found_match() calls ->probe()
> unconditionally...

That would appear to be a bug in the 2.5 driver layer then. I'd suggest
fixing it there. Attempting to probe a device that already has a driver
attached to it doesn't seem to make sense.