Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 13:50:18 +0900
From: Tejun Heo <tj@home-tj.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, mochel@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.10-rc1 0/4] driver-model: manual device attach
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 Hello, Greg,

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:53:19AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> How does a device know what drivers could be bound to it?  It's the
> other way around, drivers know what kind of devices they can bind to.
> Let's add the ability to add more devices to a driver through sysfs,
> again, like PCI does.
> 
> > Writing a driver name attaches the device to the driver.
> 
> No, do it the other way, attach a driver to a device.

 Well, I just happen to think that devices attach to drivers as in
"attaching pci device 0000:00:08.0 to e1000 driver".  Maybe I'm just
weird. :-P

-- 
tejun

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