On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:33:13PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote: > * Greg KH (greg@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:18:29PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote: > > > This adds a remove_id sysfs entry to allow users of new_id to later > > > remove the added dynid. One use case is management tools that want to > > > dynamically bind/unbind devices to pci-stub driver while devices are > > > assigned to KVM guests. Rather than having to track which driver was > > > originally bound to the driver, a mangement tool can simply: > > > > > > # echo "8086 10f5" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/pci-stub/new_id > > > # echo -n 0000:00:19.0 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:19.0/driver/unbind > > > # echo -n 0000:00:19.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/pci-stub/bind > > > > Ah, you do need -n with unbind and bind, you might want to change your > > documentation :) > > Heh, it is confusing. I'll just drop the -n from the changelog here, > and add a note to the docs that mention older kernels may need -n. Sounds good to me. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
