Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:27:16 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v4 01/10] driver core: export driver_probe_device() |
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On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 06:29:31PM +0100, Antonios Motakis wrote: > From: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@linaro.org> > > Needed by drivers, such as the vfio platform driver [1], seeking to > bypass bind_store()'s driver_match_device(), and bind to any device > via a private sysfs bind file. > > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/11/522 > > note: the EXPORT_SYMBOL is needed because vfio-platform can be built > as a module.
No code outside of drivers/base/ should be calling this function, you are doing something wrong in your bus if you want to do this, please fix your bus code.
sorry, I can't accept this at all.
greg k-h
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