Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932185AbaFCE2s (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2014 00:28:48 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:45518 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932112AbaFCE2q (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2014 00:28:46 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 21:28:42 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Kim Phillips Cc: a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com, alex.williamson@redhat.com, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, jhovold@gmail.com, will.deacon@arm.com, a.rigo@virtualopensystems.com, rob.herring@calxeda.com, stuart.yoder@freescale.com, rob@landley.net, grant.likely@linaro.org, tech@virtualopensystems.com, clbchenlibo.chen@huawei.com, christoffer.dall@linaro.org, eric.auger@linaro.org, Julien Grall , Ian Campbell , Stefano Stabellini , Alexander Graf Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: platform: add device binding path 'driver_override' Message-ID: <20140603042842.GD14668@kroah.com> References: <1398700371-20096-1-git-send-email-a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com> <1398700371-20096-2-git-send-email-a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com> <20140602194258.5135925bf3c71b9c010fb409@freescale.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140602194258.5135925bf3c71b9c010fb409@freescale.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf > Reviewed-by: Stuart Yoder > Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips > --- > 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-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/