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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 18:30:23 +0200
From: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
To: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
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Subject: Re: ignore pci devices?
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Hi!

> I have a small problem:  Some vendor has built a PCI board which
> (ab-)uses the bt848/878 chip in creative ways to do some DMA.  It is
> *not* a video card, thus letting the bttv driver control the card isn't
> very useful and causes trouble.  The card has no PCI Subsystem ID, so I
> can't identify and blacklist it easily.  Thus I need some way to allow
> the users to tell bttv (or the kernel) to ignore that particular PCI
> card.
> 
> Is there already something generic for this?  Some kernel parameter
> which makes pci_module_init() skip a given PCI device for example?

What about writing a "driver" which will just bind to a given
PCI device, so that the other drivers will see it's already handled?

				Have a nice fortnight
-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
For every complex problem, there's a solution that is simple, neat and wrong.
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