Tim Waugh wrote:
> 
> 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?

Hardware has always needed quirks (linux-2.4.3 has about 60 occurences
of the word "quirks", not to mention workaround, blacklist and other synonyms)!

Please apply this little patch instead of wasting time by finger-pointing
and arguing.

Martin, comments?


Regards, Gunther 



--- linux-2.4.3-orig/include/linux/pci.h        Wed Apr  4 19:46:49 2001
+++ linux/include/linux/pci.h   Sat Apr  7 20:01:51 2001
@@ -454,6 +454,9 @@
        void (*remove)(struct pci_dev *dev);    /* Device removed (NULL if not a hot-plug capable driver) */
        void (*suspend)(struct pci_dev *dev);   /* Device suspended */
        void (*resume)(struct pci_dev *dev);    /* Device woken up */
+       int multifunction_quirks;               /* Quirks for PCI serial+parport cards,
+                                                   here multiple drivers are allowed to register
+                                                   for the same pci id match */
 };


--- linux-2.4.3-orig/drivers/pci/pci.c  Wed Apr  4 19:46:46 2001
+++ linux/drivers/pci/pci.c     Sat Apr  7 19:59:47 2001
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@

        list_add_tail(&drv->node, &pci_drivers);
        pci_for_each_dev(dev) {
-               if (!pci_dev_driver(dev))
+               if (!pci_dev_driver(dev) || drv->multifunction_quirks)
                        count += pci_announce_device(drv, dev);
        }
        return count;
--- linux-2.4.3-orig/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c       Wed Apr  4 19:46:46 2001
+++ linux/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c  Sat Apr  7 20:18:37 2001
@@ -2539,6 +2539,7 @@
        name:           "parport_pc",
        id_table:       parport_pc_pci_tbl,
        probe:          parport_pc_pci_probe,
+       multifunction_quirks: 1,
 };

 static int __init parport_pc_init_superio (void)
--- linux-2.4.3-orig/drivers/char/serial.c      Wed Apr  4 19:46:43 2001
+++ linux/drivers/char/serial.c Sat Apr  7 20:00:00 2001
@@ -4178,7 +4178,7 @@
        for (i=0; timedia_data[i].num; i++) {
                ids = timedia_data[i].ids;
                for (j=0; ids[j]; j++) {
-                       if (pci_get_subvendor(dev) == ids[j]) {
+                       if (pci_get_subdevice(dev) == ids[j]) {
                                board->num_ports = timedia_data[i].num;
                                return 0;
                        }
@@ -4718,6 +4718,7 @@
        probe:          serial_init_one,
        remove:        serial_remove_one,
        id_table:       serial_pci_tbl,
+       multifunction_quirks: 1,
 };[unhandled content-type:application/octet-stream]