Re: Ethernet card

[Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>]

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

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