Re: about probing a device

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:39:44AM +0800, wit wrote:
> Hi,
> I found these routines in the kernel, does this means only one driver
> can be matched to a device?

Yes, you are correct, that is how the driver model currently works.

> What if two drivers both can drive the device, like sd & sg in scsi
> subsystem?

You have to go through a lot of pain to get it to work :)

Or create a virtual bus and devices, but that is not how scsi decided to
go about this.

I do have some half-baked patches to fix this in a generic way, to allow
multiple drivers to bind to devices, but it's not fully working right
now and I got side-tracked by having to clean up the kset/kobject/ktype
mess first to get this to work properly, so it might be a few months.

Why, is there some use for multiple drivers to devices that you want to
use?

thanks,

greg k-h