On Friday 28 January 2005 17:30, Adam Belay wrote: > Of course this patch is not going to be effective alone. ÂWe also need > to change the init order. ÂIf a driver is registered early but isn't the > best available, it will be bound to the device prematurely. ÂThis would > be a problem for carbus (yenta) bridges. > > I think we may have to load all in kernel drivers first, and then begin > matching them to hardware. ÂDo you agree? ÂIf so, I'd be happy to make a > patch for that too. >
I disagree. The driver core should automatically unbind generic driver from a device when native driver gets loaded. I think the only change is that we can no longer skip devices that are bound to a driver and match them all over again when a new driver is loaded. -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
