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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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On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 08:15:41AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 12:38:08AM -0500, Frank Rowand wrote:
> > On 10/23/21 3:56 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
=20
> We have the bind/unbind ability today, from userspace, that can control
> this.  Why not just have Linux grab the device when it boots, and then
> when userspace wants to "give the device up", it writes to "unbind" in
> sysfs, and then when all is done, it writes to the "bind" file and then
> Linux takes back over.
>=20
> Unless for some reason Linux should _not_ grab the device when booting,
> then things get messier, as we have seen in this thread.

This is probably more typical on a BMC than atypical.  The systems often re=
quire
the BMC (running Linux) to be able to reboot independently from the managed=
 host
(running anything).  In the example Zev gave, the BMC rebooting would rip a=
way
the BIOS chip from the running host.

The BMC almost always needs to come up in a "I don't know what could possib=
ly be
going on in the system" state and re-discover where the system was left off.

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Patrick Williams

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