On 16 Mar, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001, Peter Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 11:04:31PM -0800, Miles Lane wrote:
>> > > I can only think of one device supported in the kernel tree that
>> > > currently has two drivers -- the AIC7XXX SCSI hardware.
>> >
>> > keyspan_pda and keyspan in the drivers/usb/serial directory both work
>> > for the Keyspan PDA device. Long history, long story, both
>> > are going to
>> > stay there.
>>
>> There is also a couple of network cards that have two drivers, the dual
>> tulip and realtek 8139 come to mind, there's also a scsi driver (symbios /
>> ncr that will drive the same cards etc.
>
> There's 2 3com drivers in 2.2 or 2.4 or something, I forget which.
...and all of these end up being a royal PITA. It is even worse for
USB where it complicates vendors trying to support their USB devices on
linux and users have devices where neither driver supports both devices.
Ty
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