Edward Pilatowicz wrote:
>
> well, this is only because /dev/nvidiactl is a weird device node is the
> sense that it's driver attaches to real hardware nodes and also to a pseudo
> device node.  (i don't know of any other driver that does this.)
>
> is there any reason why /dev/nvidiactl couldn't be an exclusively pseudo
> device driver that simply layers over real hardware nodes which are
> bound to the correct driver?
>
>
>   
Yes, this was covered in the previous ARC discussions.  The pseudo 
driver instance
cannot be simply layered as it shares structures with the character 
device instances.
The size and format of these structures change with each driver build so 
they are
inexorably tied together.

At best all three kernel drivers can exist on the system as long as 
add_drv is only
done on one of them.

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