Linux: Dynamic Driver Binding

Posted by Joshua Schmidlkofer 23/05/2006 at 17h03

Linux is pretty awesome, but sometimes manufacturers and hardware can be a pill. On such instance are LSI Logic MegaRAID controllers. From Dell PERC to HP NetRAID to off the shelf stuff, these can be the bane of your existance. Today I have the mispleasure of dealing with one that is partially/not-really supported.
  • http://lwn.net/Articles/143397/ 

      livecd ~ # lspci
.....
01:02.0 0104 RAID bus controller: American Megatrends Inc. MegaRAID (rev 21)
.....

livecd ~ # lspci -n 
.....
01:02.0 101e:1960
.....

livecd ~ # echo "101e:1960" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/megaraid_legacy
      That pretty much covers it, the long hand it this:
      • Locate the device PCI address, using lspci
      • Use 'lspci -n' to locate the PCI Device ID. (Hint: The PCI Address remains the same.)
      • echo 'XXXX:XXXX' into the 'new_id' node inside the proper sysfs pci/drivers driver directory.