On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 02:03:58AM +0100, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> I understand the need for the "cards" parameter, but...
> Is not there another way to solve this issue ? I do not know,
> something in /proc or /sys to tell Linux to not load this driver for
> that card? I suppose if we tell Linux to not use its driver for some
> cards, then later loading the rtnet driver will be used for these
> cards? Adding the cards parameter means that the rtnet drivers
> diverge from mainline drivers, and so imply a maintenance cost. On
> the other hand, maybe that is a cheaper one than trying and solving
> the issue globally.

Certainly a well behaved driver would not touch a device already handled
by a linux driver.  It should be possible to just issue an unbind request
to the linux driver for the desired device and then a bind request to
the rtnet driver to take over that device.

But I have not looked at rtnet, so I don't know how those behave compared
to linux drivers.

-- 
Len Sorensen

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