Re: RFC: (re-)binding the VFIO platform driver to a platform device

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On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 01:33:27PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> What it looks like we do still want from the driver core is the ability
> for a driver to say that it should not be bound to a device except via
> explicit sysfs bind,

You can do that today by not providing any device ids in your driver
structure, relying on the dynamic ids the driver core creates.

> and the ability for a user to say that a device should not be bound to
> a driver except via explicit sysfs bind.

That's not going to happen, as how can the kernel know a specific device
is going to want this, before it asks the drivers about it?

Or, just don't ever create a driver that matches that device, then rely
on userspace to do the binding explicitly.

Either way, no driver core changes are needed from what I can tell.

greg k-h
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