From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: Remove Prism II support from Orinoco Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:20:48 -0700 Message-ID: <20060613042048.GA14824@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> References: <20060610175010.GA4617@divinity> <20060610180850.GP7420@redhat.com> <20060611222719.GA13139@redhat.com> <20060611224054.GB13139@redhat.com> <20060611224954.GA2880@divinity> <20060612152434.GA14851@tuxdriver.com> <4807377b0606121710j5be6ce0fhac71b69bf4dce2c2@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:29098 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932819AbWFMEUw (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:20:52 -0400 To: Jesse Brandeburg Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4807377b0606121710j5be6ce0fhac71b69bf4dce2c2@mail.gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 12/06/06 17:10 -0700, Jesse Brandeburg wrote: > On 6/12/06, John W. Linville wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 01:49:54AM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > > > >> Having two drivers supporting the same set of hardware seems pretty > >> pointless to me. Plus, it confuses hotplugging/automatic detection. > > > >This subject comes-up from time to time. In fact, I'm pretty sure > >it came-up very recently w.r.t. orinoco and hostap. > > > >The consensus seems to be that drivers should have IDs for all devices > >they support, even if that means that some devices are supported by > >multiple drivers. This leaves the choice of which driver to use in > >the hands of the user and/or distro. > > my problem is that for my prism 2 adapter both drivers are loaded at > which point neither of them works. I'm running FC5, and i have to > keep removing the orinoco*.ko files to keep them from loading, so I'm > all for this patch. > use blacklist in module config to block one. Just put in /etc/modprobe.conf blacklist orinoco