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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
To: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Cc: greg@kroah.com, rml@novell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] add driver matching priorities
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:23:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200501281823.27132.dtor_core@ameritech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1106951404.29709.20.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Friday 28 January 2005 17:30, Adam Belay wrote:
> Of course this patch is not going to be effective alone.  We also need
> to change the init order.  If a driver is registered early but isn't the
> best available, it will be bound to the device prematurely.  This would
> be a problem for carbus (yenta) bridges.
> 
> I think we may have to load all in kernel drivers first, and then begin
> matching them to hardware.  Do you agree?  If so, I'd be happy to make a
> patch for that too.
> 

I disagree. The driver core should automatically unbind generic driver
from a device when native driver gets loaded. I think the only change is
that we can no longer skip devices that are bound to a driver and match
them all over again when a new driver is loaded.  

-- 
Dmitry

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-28 23:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-28 22:30 [RFC][PATCH] add driver matching priorities Adam Belay
2005-01-28 23:23 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2005-01-28 23:33   ` Adam Belay
2005-01-28 23:51     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-01-29  0:05       ` Adam Belay
2005-01-29  0:11   ` Al Viro
2005-01-29  2:45     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-10  8:41 ` Greg KH
2005-02-10 17:18   ` Adam Belay
2005-02-10 18:08     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-10 18:12     ` Greg KH
2005-02-10 21:26       ` Adam Belay
2005-02-10 18:33     ` Greg KH
2005-02-10 18:46       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-10 21:32         ` Adam Belay
2005-02-10 18:45     ` Russell King
2005-02-10 21:37       ` Adam Belay
2005-02-25 23:41         ` Greg KH
2005-03-01  0:05           ` Adam Belay
2005-03-01  7:58             ` Greg KH

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