From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, burman.yan@gmail.com,
rpurdie@rpsys.net, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Subject: Re: leds-hp-disk vs lis3lv02d
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:40:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081026174023.GA1847@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4902F817.4050108@tremplin-utc.net>
Hi!
> >> shouldn't this one be integrated into Eric's/Yan's driver?
> >
> > It is separate piece of hardware, completely unrelated to lids3v
> > chip. No, it should not be integrated, but I'll makesure they work
> > toggether well.
> Hello,
> I think I talked too fast: it seems impossible to have both drivers
> (leds-hp-disk and lis3lv02d) working at the same time. Only the first
> driver loaded is used.
>
> After a little look at it, I think it comes from the fact that both
> drivers are assigned to the same MODALIAS (HPQ0004). The ACPI PNP
> (through the generic bus infrastructure) only declare the device to one
> of the drivers supporting it, not all of them.
I can reproduce it here and it obviously needs fixing. OTOH it should
not block merge; both drivers still work and are useful.
> How can I tell to ACPI that it should load both drivers for the same PNP
> ID match?
I'll take a look if I can figure something out...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-27 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2008-10-25 10:42 ` leds-hp-disk vs lis3lv02d Eric Piel
2008-10-26 17:40 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2008-10-27 12:45 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-10-27 12:58 ` Kay Sievers
2008-10-27 13:03 ` Pavel Machek
2008-11-06 12:14 ` Pavel Machek
2008-11-06 21:45 ` Éric Piel
2008-11-06 22:22 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-05 23:00 ` Pavel Machek
2008-11-10 11:59 ` Pavel Machek
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