Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 May 2014 23:24:11 +0200 | From | Alexander Graf <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v5_v2 01/11] driver core: platform: add device binding path 'driver_override' |
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On 29.05.14 21:43, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 19:25 -0500, Kim Phillips wrote: >> From: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com> >> >> Needed by platform device drivers, such as the vfio-platform driver >> later in series, in order to bypass the existing OF, ACPI, id_table and >> name string matches, and successfully be able to be bound to any >> device, like so: >> >> echo vfio-platform > /sys/bus/platform/devices/fff51000.ethernet/driver_override >> echo fff51000.ethernet > /sys/bus/platform/devices/fff51000.ethernet/driver/unbind >> echo fff51000.ethernet > /sys/bus/platform/drivers_probe >> >> This mimics "PCI: Introduce new device binding path using >> pci_dev.driver_override" [1], which is an interface enhancement >> for more deterministic PCI device binding, e.g., when in the >> presence of hotplug. >> >> [1] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/kvmarm/2014-May/009527.html >> >> Suggested-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> >> Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com> > Looks largely identical to the PCI version of the same that has been > accepted for v3.16 and ack'd by GregKH. > > Reviewed-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Yup, would be great to have feature parity for device binding on platform and PCI.
Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Alex
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