On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 07:42:58PM -0500, Kim Phillips wrote: > Needed by platform device drivers, such as the upcoming > vfio-platform driver, 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", which is an interface enhancement > for more deterministic PCI device binding, e.g., when in the > presence of hotplug. > > Reviewed-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Greg, > > This is largely identical to the PCI version of the same that has > been accepted for v3.16 and ack'd by you: > > https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/kvmarm/2014-May/009674.html > > and applied to Bjorn Helgaas' PCI tree: > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci.git/commit/?h=pci/virtualization&id=782a985d7af26db39e86070d28f987cad21313c0 > > You are the platform driver core maintainer: can you apply this to > your driver-core tree now? Yes, I will after this merge window ends, it's too late for 3.16-rc1 with the window opening up a week early, sorry. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
