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From: "Andreas Herrmann" <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
To: "Andrey Kamchatnikov" <andrey.kamchatnikov@tec-venture.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem: one driver and 4 instances with different parameters
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:52:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070919085258.GA6640@alberich.amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <016a01c7fa89$ff51e850$b4fefea9@andrey>

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 08:54:58AM +0200, Andrey Kamchatnikov wrote:
> I have one driver, but I need to run 4 instances of it (I run insmod with different 
> parameters) .
> 
> But when I try to install the second driver I've got an error, that driver with this name 
> exists.

It might work using modprobe's "--name"-option:

  # modprobe -o foo driver
  # modprobe -o bar driver


Regards,

Andreas

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-19  8:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-19  6:54 Problem: one driver and 4 instances with different parameters Andrey Kamchatnikov
2007-09-19  7:40 ` Nobin Mathew
2007-09-19  8:26 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 15:56   ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-19  8:52 ` Andreas Herrmann [this message]

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