Re: Stradis driver conflicts with all other SAA7146 drivers

Jiri Slaby
2006-05-28T16:35:43Z

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Christer Weinigel napsal(a):
> I'm running the stock Fedora Core 5 kernels, and for some reason the
> stradis driver is loaded. I suppose there's some magic in the FC5
> hotplug scripts that tries to load all device drivers that claim to
> support a certain PCI device.
Userspace now knows, that stradis can take control of this hardware, so US loads
it, because MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE is present in the driver (you may compare old
and new /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.pcimap). It shows us the next way, how
to solve this -- delete this TABLE line from the driver, to not advertise "I can
take control of it".
>
> I have blacklisted the stradis driver on my system, which fixes it for
> me, but it does feels as a workaround for a problem that ought to be
> fixed in the driver. If the card doesn't have a subvendor/subdevice,
> is there some way of doing a sanity check on the board to see if it
> actually is a stradis card and then release the board if it isn't?
Unfortunately not.
>
> If the driver isn't fixed I'll file a bug report on the Fedora
> bugzilla asking them to blacklist or just not compile that driver.
It is the best short-term solution, I think.

So, what to do now, Mauro, Nathan? Fix it in US (i.e. blacklist) or KS (i.e.
delete TABLE entry -- hope this helps) for the time until the driver will be
integrated?

regards,
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