FW: i386/127710: My driver PCI probe is not called for my correspondingdevice ID and Vendor ID

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 01 October 2008 08:50:15 am Bagavathy Kumar Mahendran wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
>              Iam writing a new driver for a SAS/SATA Controller having a
> Class ID -0x01
> Sub Class - 0x07
> Programming Interface - 0x00
> 
> Hence instead of my probe function the Static build Card Bus Driver cbb
> is attaching just by simply checking sub class 0x07 and programming
> interface 0x00.hence my probe gets failed. Kindly help me in resolving
> this .what I thought is to add the card bus driver a checking of CLASS
> ID in its pci probe function.

The pccbb driver returns BUS_PROBE_DEFAULT (it should probably return GENERIC 
in the case where it matches only on class codes).  Your driver just needs to 
return a numerically higher value (but still < 0) to claim the device.  You 
can probably use BUS_PROBE_VENDOR or BUS_PROBE_DEFAULT + 1.

-- 
John Baldwin