Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>
> Why can't we just update driver_aliases etal. to load nvidia-legacy-96
> for pci id's of cards only supported by that driver, nvidia-legacy-173
> for those supported by that driver but not later ones, etc. ?
>
> We could have those return different VIS_GETIDENTIFIER strings so the
> Xserver knows which driver to load.
>
It's the name space issue for the clients.  All the clients are 
hardcoded to open
/dev/nvidiactl (pseudo driver instance) and /dev/nvidia? (character 
driver instance).
We can't have three drivers which declare the same pseudo driver instance.

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