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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6.10-rc1 0/4] driver-model: manual device attach
    On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 12:02:57AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
    > I think that my bind)mode patches which allow to control binding through
    > sysfs on pre-device and per-driver base should suffice here. I really doubt
    > that anybody would want to keep autoattach disabled and do all matching
    > manually ;). Besides having per-driver attribute allows drivers authors
    > control binding.

    Think about extending hotplug to cover all device bindings. It will
    kick in very early in the booting process (maybe in the initrd image)
    and names/binds every device on the device with appropriate arguments
    as user requested. I was thinking about usages like that when I was
    making the sysctl node. Maybe I was going too far. :-)

    > Do we really need 2 or even 3 files ("attach", "detach" and "rescan")?
    > Given that you really can't (at least not yet) do all there operations
    > for all buses from the core that woudl require 3 per-bus callbacks.
    > I think reserving special values such as "none" or "detach" and "rescan"
    > shoudl work just fine and also willallow extending supported operations
    > on per-bus basis. For example serio bus supports "reconnect" option which
    > tries to re-initialize device if something happened to it. It does not
    > want to do rescan as that would generate new input devices while it is
    > much more convenient to re-use old ones.

    How about making the command format "CMD ARGS" rather than
    "{CMD|DRIVERNAME}" i.e.

    not

    # echo e100 > drvctl
    # echo detach > drvctl

    but

    # echo attach e100 > drvctl
    # echo detach > drvctl

    But, I don't know. It now just seems too much like a proc node.

    > I disagree. Here you working with particular device. You are not saying
    > "from now on I want e100 to bind all my 5 new network cards that happen
    > to have id XXXX:YYYY". Instead you are saying "I want to bind e100 driver
    > to this card residing at /sys/bus/pci/0000.....". In other word it is
    > operation on particular device and should be done by manipulating device
    > attribute.

    I kind of agree with you but I think either way is fine.

    Thanks.

    --
    tejun

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