Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Mar 2005 20:18:24 +0200 (IST) | From | Jacques Goldberg <> | Subject | RE: Need break driver<-->pci-device automatic association |
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Stuart, Many thanks for this interesting approach. A huge advantage is that it can be implemented as a script. But: -it still requires the Linux newcomer who wants his modem to work, to recompile her/his kernel - something which frightens beginners. -it implies that when adding a serial device such as an other modem, or a serial scanner, the kernel ought again to be recompiled according to the new hardware configuration. -and at each kernel upgrade, often automatic in large organizations, the kernel must again be tailored to the configuration.
Thanks again - Jacques
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Stuart MacDonald wrote:
> From: Jacques Goldberg > > To be ugly or to never be up to date, that's the question. > > We did patch 8250_pci.c but there is no way to build a > > stable list of > > the devices to be handled that way. > > We will thus spend some time on the hot unplug solution. > > I think what you want might be accomplished if the serial driver was > compiled as a module. Then have your driver grab all the PCI devices > it wants, and they shouldn't be grabbed by the serial driver when it > loads. If you can't get your driver to load before the serial driver > for whatever reason, unloading the serial driver should give up the > devices it had claimed. > > ..Stu > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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