Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758856AbYA2Xhd (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:37:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754752AbYA2XhW (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:37:22 -0500 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:40384 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752965AbYA2XhV (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:37:21 -0500 Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:37:20 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Jon Masters cc: Michael Tokarev , Frederik Himpe , LKML , netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Udev coldplugging loads 8139too driver instead of 8139cp In-Reply-To: <1201649657.2271.81.camel@perihelion> Message-ID: References: <1201554992.13883.13.camel@Anastacia> <479E7750.9060304@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <1201649657.2271.81.camel@perihelion> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 899 Lines: 21 On Jan 29 2008 18:34, Jon Masters wrote: >On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 03:46 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > >> Udev in fact loads both - 8139cp and 8139too. The difference is the ORDER >> in which it loads them - if for "cp-handled" hardware it first loads "too", >> too will complain as above and will NOT claim the device. The same is >> true for the opposite. >[...] >> In short: NotABug, or ComplainToRealtec (but that's waaaay too late and >> will not help anyway) ;) > >Nah. It's a "bug" insomuch as we don't handle multiple matching aliases >very well, and it's becoming more common, so we probably should :) Why not combine 8139cp.c and 8139too.c? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/