From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936947AbdIZHgy (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Sep 2017 03:36:54 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:35280 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965834AbdIZHgw (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Sep 2017 03:36:52 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 09:35:15 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Grant Grundler Cc: Oliver Neukum , Hayes Wang , "David S . Miller" , LKML , linux-usb , netdev Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8152: add Linksys USB3GIGV1 id Message-ID: <20170926073515.GB8108@kroah.com> References: <20170922190604.108155-1-grundler@chromium.org> <1506351074.7827.13.camel@suse.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 01:17:32PM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote: > Correct. r8152 happens to claim the device before cdc_ether does - I > thought because cdc_ether is a class driver and only gets picked up > after vendor specific drivers are probed. Is that correct? Nope, there is not "priority" scheme of binding some drivers to devices instead of others at all in Linux. The whole scheme is "first in the list", and has always been that way. And yes, people have talked about changing this for decades now, but no one has come up with any working patch, for the obvious reasons[1]. thanks, greg k-h [1] exercise is left for the reader :)