Re: megaraid driver (proposed patch)

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 01:04:37PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> You get a kernel with two drivers trying to claim some of the same set
> of cards.  The winner will be the driver that gets its init routines
> called first, but this isn't a desirable outcome.
> 
> I wouldn't object to a patch that allows both *modules* to be built,
> which is all I think the distros are after.

The new megaraid driver doesn't support old hardware.  Maybe we should
drop the overlapping pci ids from the old driver?

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