Re: [PATCH] pci bridge class code

Benjamin Herrenschmidt (benh@kernel.crashing.org)
02 Jun 2003 14:39:28 +0200


On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 14:32, Russell King wrote:

> That would not help the case when you have the "generic" bridge module
> loaded and the specific bridge driver as a loadable module.

Well... we could store the match score of the driver, and if a newer
driver comes with a better match, call a replace() callback in the
current owner to ask if it allows "live" replacement... But that's
far beyond my original idea though

Ben.

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