Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] Re: Stradis driver conflicts with all other SAA7146 drivers

[Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>]

On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 10:58:59AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> 1) Integrate your code and Nathan one;
> 
> 2) create a generic handler for all saa7146 boards, moving all PCI probe
> to the newer module. After detecting the card number, it should request
> the specific module.

#2 breaks some existing setups that build modules to load based on the PCI
tables or built initrds this way. You can have two drivers for the same
PCI identifier providing that they both know how to bail out for the wrong
type of card
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