Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:56:51 -0700 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: Problem: one driver and 4 instances with different parameters |
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On 19 Sep 2007 10:26:54 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote:
> "Andrey Kamchatnikov" <andrey.kamchatnikov@tec-venture.de> writes: > > > I have one driver, but I need to run 4 instances of it (I run insmod > > with different parameters) . > > > > But when I try to install the second driver I've got an error, that > > driver with this name exists. > > The standard trick to do that is to copy the module binary to four different > names (the module name is not encoded in the binary) > > But it would be better to just fix the driver to allow this > with a single instance with some other run time configuration > mechanism and not use module parameters (which > are generally somewhat deprecated anyways) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Eh? Do you mean for IO,mem,irq type settings? If so, then yes, ok. Otherwise please explain what you mean...
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