Thanks a lot jg,
On recent build its working.

MK.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Gilliam [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 11:00 PM
To: Kumar, Manish
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Fwd: [install-discuss] Can we have two drivers for the same device?

On 05/ 8/11 11:58 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> Thanks Jg,
>
> Driver removal is successful. Driver_detach is called for all the devices and 
> then _fini.
>
> I tried to add the alias for the second driver after adding the first driver.
> # update_drv -a -i '"xxxx,xxxx"' mod_name
> I see an error message saying the alias already exists " already in use as a 
> driver or alias."
> If I remove the driver and then use this command, it says "driver not 
> installed". But it adds an entry to the driver_aliases. This entry is not 
> deleted by the rem_drv command. Am I doing something wrong?
>
> 1. how does the devfsadm calls the attach for each device, if we provide the 
> device_id in add_drv command (add_drv -i ....)?
> 2. How does it know the device instance numbers for each attaching device? I 
> have read that the /etc/path_to_inst keeps this record for the next boot and 
> is read only at the boot time. Who gives this info if we use 
> add_drv/update_drv?
>
>
> Thanks,
> MK.
>

Manish,

You need to use a more recent build.  The "already in use as a driver or alias"
problem was addressed in build 106 and the support for dynamically
switching aliases that I mentioned was introduced in build 109.

Cheers!


-jg

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