Re: One Vendor/Device ID multiple instances of driver

[Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>]

Keith Chew wrote:
> Hi
>
> We have a WIFI driver that only supports a single device at a time. We
> want to use 2 devices with the same vendor/device ID, but spawn 2
> instances of the same driver. Each instance will handle a single
> device.
>
> If we bought the devices from 2 vendors, we'd have 2 DeviceIDs, we can
> modify the driver to look at different IDs, which will solve our
> problem. But how can we achieve this if we wanted to use the same
> device from the same vendor?

The most obvious response is, why does the driver support only a single 
device at a time? Fixing that would be the best solution, as this goes 
against all kernel convention.

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