Re: about probing a device

[Cornelia Huck]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:50:01 +0800,
wit <is01kzh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > The first one which matches and successfully attaches "wins".
> 
> Seems that calling the bind routine can bind a driver to a device. Is
> there any bad side effect of doing such thing?

If the device is already bound to another driver, it will fail.

If you have multiple drivers for the same device, just use the drivers'
bind/unbind attributes if the wrong one "won".
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