From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
To: wit <is01kzh@gmail.com>
Cc: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: about probing a device
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:26:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071010182612.1f228ed1@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <105610bf0710100850n2eb3c68codc3781d963df764e@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:50:01 +0800,
wit <is01kzh@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The first one which matches and successfully attaches "wins".
>
> Seems that calling the bind routine can bind a driver to a device. Is
> there any bad side effect of doing such thing?
If the device is already bound to another driver, it will fail.
If you have multiple drivers for the same device, just use the drivers'
bind/unbind attributes if the wrong one "won".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-10 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-10 1:39 wit
2007-10-10 4:46 ` Greg KH
[not found] ` <105610bf0710100841t1c9463c1q9742534c8bb0dfe5@mail.gmail.com>
2007-10-10 15:59 ` Greg KH
2007-10-10 12:09 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-10 15:50 ` wit
2007-10-10 16:26 ` Cornelia Huck [this message]
2007-10-11 10:44 ` wit
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