From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Tourrilhes Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 23:07:56 +0000 Subject: Re: grey- and blacklisting drivers [Was: Re: Using the "best available" driver] Message-Id: <20051207230756.GA2811@bougret.hpl.hp.com> List-Id: References: <20051207213721.GC21844@isilmar.linta.de> In-Reply-To: <20051207213721.GC21844@isilmar.linta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 05:52:11PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Dominik Brodowski (linux@dominikbrodowski.net) said: > > 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. > > Why is the blacklisting for monolithic kernels only? > > Bill Actually, I think Dominik inverted the two and that blacklisting apply only to modular kernel and would fail with monolithic kernel (because the drivers are already pre-loaded). Anyway, that's not the point, and it does not really matter. The point is that blacklisting is clearly not able to deal with the reality and complexity of Pcmcia drivers (even for fully modular kernels). If you want more details, feel free to check the archive of the Pcmcia mailing list. Therefore, Dominik is proposing a per card overide using the unbind/bind feature. Have fun... Jean ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel