Re: [RFC 1/5] driver core: amba: add device binding path 'driver_override'

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On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Kim Phillips
<kim.phillips@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 11:01:24 +0200
> Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> As already demonstrated with PCI [1] and the platform bus [2], a
>> driver_override property in sysfs can be used to bypass the id matching
>> of a device to a AMBA driver. This can be used by VFIO to bind to any AMBA
>> device requested by the user.
>>
>> [1] http://lists-archives.com/linux-kernel/28030441-pci-introduce-new-device-binding-path-using-pci_dev-driver_override.html
>> [2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-April/msg00382.html
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  drivers/amba/bus.c       | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  include/linux/amba/bus.h |  1 +
>
> missing Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-amba entry?
>
> otherwise looks ok.

Yep, it will be included when integrated with the VFIO PLATFORM series.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Kim



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