On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 05:46:44PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
>    
>    > The problem is that the autoconfig code isn't set up to rescan the PCI
>    > bus, thus there's no easy way to notice your new driver. Also, I'm not
>    > sure if there's an easy way to punch your driver into the PCI
>    > discovery code.
>    
>    Well, there is pci_find_device() for that purpose.  The drawback is that
>    you have to be very careful not to attach to just anything, as you can't
>    know if someone has already mapped regions or interrupts before you.
> 
> 
> it also only attaches the very first one it finds...

I guess the idea behind pci_find_device() was "does such a device exist?".

If you really want to go through all devices, the probe function has to
return 0 and then you have to manage your own counter.  That's what I do
for pcilkm, and this smells as a hack, but about everything smells as a
hack with LKMs :)

Quentin Garnier.