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    SubjectRe: Multi-function PCI devices
    On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 04:57:29AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

    > Where is this patch available? I haven't heard of an extension to the
    > pci id tables, so I wonder if it's really in the queue for the official
    > kernel.

    It is. <URL:http://people.redhat.com/twaugh/patches/> The
    'extension' is just 'more entries', AFAIR.

    > > I'm afraid this is not a bug, but a design issue, and will be hard to
    > > solve. Maybe we need a flag for such devices which allows it to be
    > > claimed ba more thean one driver?
    >
    > Not so hard.

    *sigh* Jeff, when I spoke to you about this last year you said
    'tough', or words to that effect. :-(

    > There is no need to register more than one driver per PCI device -- just
    > create a PCI driver whose probe routine registers serial and parallel,
    > and whose remove routine unregisters same.

    *cough* modularity *cough*

    Wnat to show us some elegant code that does that?

    Tim.
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