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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] add driver matching priorities
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On Friday 28 January 2005 17:30, Adam Belay wrote:
> Of course this patch is not going to be effective alone.  We also need
> to change the init order.  If a driver is registered early but isn't the
> best available, it will be bound to the device prematurely.  This would
> be a problem for carbus (yenta) bridges.
>
> I think we may have to load all in kernel drivers first, and then begin
> matching them to hardware.  Do you agree?  If so, I'd be happy to make a
> patch for that too.
>

I disagree. The driver core should automatically unbind generic driver
from a device when native driver gets loaded. I think the only change is
that we can no longer skip devices that are bound to a driver and match
them all over again when a new driver is loaded.

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Dmitry
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