Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 03 Jul 2001 03:05:18 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: RFC: modules and 2.5 |
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Sean Hunter wrote: > > Does this defeat my favourite module-related gothcha, that the machine panics > if I have (say) a scsi driver builtin to the kernel and the same driver tries > to load itself as a module?
Other, existing mechanisms should prevent conflicts here. If a builtin SCSI driver loads successfully, then its calls to request_region, request_mem_region, or pci_request_regions should have succeeded.
If so, any attempt to grab those I/O regions by another driver, including another instance of the same driver, should fail.
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