Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:41:30 -0500
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: multi-function PCI device claiming.
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I had a user report a bug against the Fedora kernel where
his Matrox G400 wouldn't work with the matrox framebuffer
driver any more.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195825

It turned out to be caused by the fact that the matrox_w1
one-wire driver had loaded first.  Moving that driver
out of the way so that it didn't get loaded would allow
the framebuffer driver to load.

There are a number of similar cases like this which seem
to be coming out of the woodwork lately.  I've also heard
as-yet unconfirmed rumours that agp-intel and one of the
watchdog drivers suffers the same "first to load wins" problem.

What's the correct way to fix this ?

		Dave

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