Tim Waugh wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 04:57:29AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > Where is this patch available? I haven't heard of an extension to the
> > pci id tables, so I wonder if it's really in the queue for the official
> > kernel.
>
> It is. <URL:http://people.redhat.com/twaugh/patches/> The
> 'extension' is just 'more entries', AFAIR.
>
> > > I'm afraid this is not a bug, but a design issue, and will be hard to
> > > solve. Maybe we need a flag for such devices which allows it to be
> > > claimed ba more thean one driver?
> >
> > Not so hard.
>
> *sigh* Jeff, when I spoke to you about this last year you said
> 'tough', or words to that effect. :-(
>
> > There is no need to register more than one driver per PCI device -- just
> > create a PCI driver whose probe routine registers serial and parallel,
> > and whose remove routine unregisters same.
>
> *cough* modularity *cough*
>
> Wnat to show us some elegant code that does that?
Hardware has always needed quirks (linux-2.4.3 has about 60 occurences
of the word "quirks", not to mention workaround, blacklist and other synonyms)!
Please apply this little patch instead of wasting time by finger-pointing
and arguing.
Martin, comments?
Regards, Gunther
--- linux-2.4.3-orig/include/linux/pci.h Wed Apr 4 19:46:49 2001
+++ linux/include/linux/pci.h Sat Apr 7 20:01:51 2001
@@ -454,6 +454,9 @@
void (*remove)(struct pci_dev *dev); /* Device removed (NULL if not a hot-plug capable driver) */
void (*suspend)(struct pci_dev *dev); /* Device suspended */
void (*resume)(struct pci_dev *dev); /* Device woken up */
+ int multifunction_quirks; /* Quirks for PCI serial+parport cards,
+ here multiple drivers are allowed to register
+ for the same pci id match */
};
--- linux-2.4.3-orig/drivers/pci/pci.c Wed Apr 4 19:46:46 2001
+++ linux/drivers/pci/pci.c Sat Apr 7 19:59:47 2001
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@
list_add_tail(&drv->node, &pci_drivers);
pci_for_each_dev(dev) {
- if (!pci_dev_driver(dev))
+ if (!pci_dev_driver(dev) || drv->multifunction_quirks)
count += pci_announce_device(drv, dev);
}
return count;
--- linux-2.4.3-orig/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c Wed Apr 4 19:46:46 2001
+++ linux/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c Sat Apr 7 20:18:37 2001
@@ -2539,6 +2539,7 @@
name: "parport_pc",
id_table: parport_pc_pci_tbl,
probe: parport_pc_pci_probe,
+ multifunction_quirks: 1,
};
static int __init parport_pc_init_superio (void)
--- linux-2.4.3-orig/drivers/char/serial.c Wed Apr 4 19:46:43 2001
+++ linux/drivers/char/serial.c Sat Apr 7 20:00:00 2001
@@ -4178,7 +4178,7 @@
for (i=0; timedia_data[i].num; i++) {
ids = timedia_data[i].ids;
for (j=0; ids[j]; j++) {
- if (pci_get_subvendor(dev) == ids[j]) {
+ if (pci_get_subdevice(dev) == ids[j]) {
board->num_ports = timedia_data[i].num;
return 0;
}
@@ -4718,6 +4718,7 @@
probe: serial_init_one,
remove: serial_remove_one,
id_table: serial_pci_tbl,
+ multifunction_quirks: 1,
};
-
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