Re: [ANNOUNCE] e1000 to e1000e migration of PCI Express devices

Ingo Molnar [off-list ref] writes:

( sidenote: isnt there some facility that selects the "better" driver in 
  case there is an overlap between PCI IDs - with the ability for users 
  to override that selection? )

The default action for driver auto loaders in this case is usually to load
all of them unless specially overriden. That is because there are several
cases where one PCI-ID implements multiple functions served by different
drivers. So far there is no really clean solution to this problem and for
e1000 with PCI-E IDs it would do the wrong thing.

-Andi

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