On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 4:45 PM, Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2/27/2018 11:16 AM, Harsha Rao wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> I am developing a new wifi driver for our sdio based wifi device. >> >> I see that SDIO_VENDOR_ID and SDIO_DEVICE_ID for our device (We had >> bought the SDIO IP from 3rd party) is already been used by some >> other vendor and its already into staging . >> >> Please suggest me how can I move forward to submit the driver for staging. > > > Can you be more specific about the conflicting vendor id and device id? Hi, My driver kicks in with vendor id 0x296 and device id 0x5347. But when I grepped the the kernel source I could see an other driver wilc1000 using the same vendor ID and device ID ( We have a different hw than them !) >> Is there a way to reconfigure the values in the SDIO host for >> different value or does Linux allow two drivers with same values to >> survive mutual exclusively > > > First come first serve. When a device is detected, the driver core looks for > drivers supporting it based on device table and the first that successfully > returns from the .probe() callback is bound to the device. > > Regards, > Arend Does Linux allow two drivers with conflicting device and vendor IDs to stay on in kernel ? - Harsha
