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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] add driver matching priorities
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 06:23:26PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 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.

And what happens if we've already got the object busy?
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