From: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: grey- and blacklisting drivers [Was: Re: Using the "best available" driver]
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:37:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051207213721.GC21844@isilmar.linta.de> (raw)
Hi,
For various reasons, it might be necessary to switch to a better driver for
a device -- Jean can tell of many examples, if needed. Currently, that's
possible using modprobe's blacklisting capability (in
module-init-tools-3.2.1, at least) -- but that's for monolithic kernels
only. While a blacklisting feature might also come useful in the kernel
driver core level, udev may offer the chance to fix some broken "bindings"
if there's need to. We'd need a simple shell script like
#/bin/bash
#
# needs 4 arguments: devpath bus wrong_driver right_driver
#
$drivername = basename $(readlink /sys/$1/driver)
$device = basename $1
$bus = $2
$wrong_driver = $3
$right_driver = $4
if [ $drivername = $wrong_driver ]; then
echo -n "$device" > /sys/$devpath/driver/unbind
echo -n "$device" > /sys/bus/$2/$right_driver/driver/bind
fi;
Then adding udev rules like
ACTION="add", BUS="pci", RUN+="/bin/sh -c /sbin/check_blacklist $devpath $bus hostap_pci orinoco_pci'"
is very easy, and such rules could even be generated by yet another tool
which then echos into all relevant "uevent" files to run this script..
Or is all this already implemented? But differently? Should it be done at
the kernel driver core level?
Thanks,
Dominik
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next reply other threads:[~2005-12-07 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-07 21:37 Dominik Brodowski [this message]
2005-12-07 22:52 ` grey- and blacklisting drivers [Was: Re: Using the "best available" driver] Bill Nottingham
2005-12-07 23:07 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2005-12-08 1:23 ` Greg KH
2005-12-08 1:56 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2005-12-08 2:15 grey- and blacklisting drivers [Was: Re: Using the "best Pete Zaitcev
2005-12-08 2:54 ` grey- and blacklisting drivers [Was: Re: Using the "best available" driver] Jean Tourrilhes
2005-12-08 15:31 ` Kay Sievers
2005-12-10 4:20 ` Greg KH
2005-12-11 6:43 ` Kay Sievers
2005-12-11 16:13 ` Kay Sievers
2005-12-11 17:20 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-12-11 19:59 ` Dominik Brodowski
2005-12-11 20:00 ` Dominik Brodowski
2005-12-11 20:55 ` Kay Sievers
2005-12-11 21:11 ` Kay Sievers
2005-12-13 4:55 ` Kay Sievers
2005-12-13 19:39 ` Dominik Brodowski
2005-12-13 20:46 ` Kay Sievers
2005-12-13 20:56 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-12-13 21:27 ` Kay Sievers
2005-12-13 22:00 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-12-13 22:54 ` Dominik Brodowski
2006-01-08 21:36 ` Dominik Brodowski
2006-01-09 0:44 ` Kay Sievers
2006-01-17 10:51 ` Christian Zoz
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