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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Trying to fix ITE-887x parallel/serial driver bugs (including 
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> but all have the same PCI id. My code just lets parport_serial handle
> the serial-only and parallel-only cases. Is that approach better than
> having two modules that both match the same PCI id?

Most distributions load each driver that matches an id anyway so I think
so - puts the complexity in one place.

Alan