On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:52:23 -0800 Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 0000:00:19.0 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:19.0/driver/unbind > # echo 0000:00:19.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/pci-stub/bind > > Guest uses device > > # echo "8086 10f5" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/pci-stub/remove_id > # echo 0000:00:19.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers_probe > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Applied to linux-next, thanks Chris. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- 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
