Re: modular intel-agp does not work on my box

Gabriel C
2008-02-23T19:30:49Z

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:03:55AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > > > You are right without EDAC built , agp modular does work fine. I'm on 2.6.25-rc2-00477-g1a4c6be right now.
> > > > So it is an EDAC bug ?
> > >
> > > No, it's a failing of the pci driver model. It currently doesn't
> > > allow more than one driver to be bound to a single PCI device.
> > > For multi-function devices like bridges, this means we see problems
> > > like the one you mention.
> >
> > Well that sounds pretty bad. What will distros do about this?
>
> either
> * ship both modular, and let the user decide which one he wants.

If you do so you have to blacklist one by default because udev will magically load both.

> * build just one of them (typically agp)
> * build them both, and let the above bug happen

Well the bug was not with both build into the kernel.
CONFIG_EDAC=Y CONFIG_EDAC_<something>=m, CONFIG_AGP=m CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=m breaks agp already.

> * build agp into the kernel, and edac modular, breaking edac
> for a minority.

What does happen if one builds both into the kernel ? ( eg: all the *_AGP* Y , and all the *_EDAC* y )

Guessing no one of them will work ?

>
> > Is there something short-term-and-sleazy we can do to "fix" it?
>
> not that I'm aware of. I think Greg has been working on a long-term fix.
>
> Dave
>

Gabriel