On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 06:34:52PM -0500, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
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Well you could do it by adding an install rule to /etc/modprobe.d so that the unbind automatically runs after the module is loaded. Sure it would be claimed initially, but is the device left in a state where the driver disassociating would cause a problem?
Part of why we would like to have this is that the driver may be broken and loading it may crash the system with this particular device already. Therefore unbinding will of no use any more. You may say: Then fix the d*** driver. But this may not always be possible. Those graphics chips have more transistors than your CPU, are much less well understood and change more rapidly than you can blink your eyes. So while the driver works in general it may fail on some PCI vendor/device/subvendor/subdevice ID (or requires a special option). I don't think this will change suddenly with the driver being in the kernel. Cheers, Egbert. -- Egbert Eich (Res. & Dev.) SUSE LINUX Products GmbH X Window System Development Tel: +49 911-740 53 0 http://www.suse.de ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org