Subject: Re: Udev coldplugging loads 8139too driver instead of 8139cp

From: Ondrej Zary <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:53:16 +0100

On Tuesday 29 January 2008 11:43:53 Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:46:08 +0300
> > Michael Tokarev <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> []
>
> >> There are 2 drivers for 8139-based NICs.  For really different two kinds
> >> of hardware, which both uses the same PCI identifiers.  Both drivers
> >> "claims" to work with all NICs with those PCI ids, because "externally"
> >> (by means of udev for example) it's impossible to distinguish the two
> >> kinds of hardware, it becomes clean only when the driver (either of the
> >> two) loads and actually checks which hardware we have here.
> >
> > Is there any chance of using subdevice or subversion to tell them apart?
> > That worked for other vendors like DLINK who slapped same ID on different
> > cards.
>
> If it were that simple... ;)
>
> No.  The difference is in PCI revision number (byte #8 in PCI config
> space). If it's >= 0x40 - it's 8139too, < 0x40 - 8139cp.  Or 0x20 - I
> forgot.

Perhaps a module could be created that will claim this device ID and then use 
the correct driver.

> Here's a code snippet from a shell script I used ages ago to automatically
> load modules (similar to what udev does nowadays):
>
>   # special hack for 8139{too,cp} stuff
>   case "$modalias" in
>   *v000010ECd00008139*)
>     rev="$(dd if="$1/config" bs=1 skip=8 count=1 2>/dev/null)"
>     if [ -n "$rev" ]; then
>       list=
>       for module in $modlist; do
>         case "$module" in
>         8139cp)
>           if [ ".$rev" \< ". " ]; then
>             $vecho1 "$TAG: not loading $module for this device"
>             continue
>           fi
>           ;;
>         8139too)
>           if [ ".$rev" \> ". " ]; then
>             $vecho1 "$TAG: not loading $module for this device"
>             continue
>           fi
>           ;;
>         esac
>         list="$list $module"
>       done
>       modlist="$list"
>     fi
>     ;;
>   esac
>
> /mjt
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Ondrej Zary