On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 06:58:47PM +0200, Sjur Brændeland wrote: > Hi Michael, > > > Exactly. Though if we just fail load it will be much less code. > > > > Generally, using a feature bit for this is a bit of a problem though: > > normally driver is expected to be able to simply ignore > > a feature bit. In this case driver is required to > > do something so a feature bit is not a good fit. > > I am not sure what the right thing to do is. > > I see - so in order to avoid the binding between driver and device > there are two options I guess. Either make virtio_dev_match() or > virtcons_probe() fail. Neither of them seems like the obvious choice. > > Maybe adding a check for VIRTIO_CONSOLE_F_DMA_MEM match > between device and driver in virtcons_probe() is the lesser evil? > > Regards, > Sjur
A simplest thing to do is change dev id. rusty? -- MST -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/