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Re: Simultaneous loading of e100 and eepro100 by hotplug



Le mercredi 01 décembre 2004 à 18:48 +0900, Horms a écrit :
> > Another example are the Realtek 8149 drivers. I had to blacklist one 
> > of the drivers. This chipset is really common. So many people will 
> > have to do this.
> 
> If the blacklist exists for other devices, then yes this sounds like
> a good idea. The e100 should be used over the eepro100 as
> the later is in the process of being debricated upstream.

The solution looks obvious: don't build these deprecated drivers when
there is already one working driver in the same kernel package.

Or build them, but put them in a directory which depmod and hotplug will
omit. The module will still be loadable by hand, but won't be used by
default.
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