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From:   Patrick Williams <patrick@stwcx.xyz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] driver core: inhibit automatic driver binding on
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Hi Greg,

On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 10:57:21AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 01:32:32AM -0700, Zev Weiss wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 11:46:56PM PDT, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 07:00:31PM -0700, Zev Weiss wrote:

> > So we want the kernel to be aware of the device's existence (so that we
> > *can* bind a driver to it when needed), but we don't want it touching t=
he
> > device unless we really ask for it.
> >=20
> > Does that help clarify the motivation for wanting this functionality?
>=20
> Sure, then just do this type of thing in the driver itself.  Do not have
> any matching "ids" for this hardware it so that the bus will never call
> the probe function for this hardware _until_ a manual write happens to
> the driver's "bind" sysfs file.

It sounds like you're suggesting a change to one particular driver to satis=
fy
this one particular case (and maybe I'm just not understanding your suggest=
ion).
For a BMC, this is a pretty regular situation and not just as one-off as Ze=
v's
example.

Another good example is where a system can have optional riser cards with a
whole tree of devices that might be on that riser card (and there might be
different variants of a riser card that could go in the same slot).  Usually
there is an EEPROM of some sort at a well-known address that can be parsed =
to
identify which kind of riser card it is and then the appropriate sub-device=
s can
be enumerated.  That EEPROM parsing is something that is currently done in
userspace due to the complexity and often vendor-specific nature of it.

Many of these devices require quite a bit more configuration information th=
an
can be passed along a `bind` call.  I believe it has been suggested previou=
sly
that this riser-card scenario could also be solved with dynamic loading of =
DT
snippets, but that support seems simple pretty far from being merged.

--=20
Patrick Williams

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