On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 07:51:39PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Hi, > > [ I'm not an expert on PCI questions, so please Greg or others correct > if I'm wrong ] > > Le Thu, 4 May 2006 11:02:13 +0530, > "Md.Zaheeruddin Khan" <zaheer031@xxxxxxxxx> a ??crit : > > > Suppose I have three ethernet cards with the same mac address how > > many times the init module and the probe will be called . > > The init_module() function is called only once for a given module. > > According to page 11 of http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch12.pdf : > > ?? > int (*probe) (struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pci_device_id *id); > > Pointer to the probe function in the PCI driver. This function is > called by the PCI core when it has a struct pci_dev that it thinks > this driver wants to control. A pointer to the struct pci_device_id > that the PCI core used to make this decision is also passed to this > function. If the PCI driver claims the struct pci_dev that is passed > to it, it should initialize the device properly and return 0. If the > driver does not want to claim the device, or an error occurs, it > should return a negative error value. More details about this function > follow later in this chapter. > ?? > > So, as I understand it, your probe() function will be called for each > device. I suggest you to read the rest of the 12th chapter of Linux > Device Drivers for more information. No correction needed, this is exactly what will happen. thanks, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
