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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:56:51 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "Andrey Kamchatnikov" <andrey.kamchatnikov@tec-venture.de>,
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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) 
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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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~Randy
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