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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Yup, would be great to have feature parity for device binding on
platform and PCI.
Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx>
Alex
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