Re: RFC: (re-)binding the VFIO platform driver to a platform device

[Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>]

On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 01:39:43PM -0700, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 09:27:38PM +0100, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > > > What you're suggesting would let users specify that
> > > > a serial driver should handle a NIC hardware, no?  That sounds much much
> > > > worse to me.
> > > 
> > > The flag (and wildcard match, if applicable) would be set by the driver,
> > > not by the user.  Whereas PCI's "new_id" and the "new_compatible" being
> > > suggested in this thread would allow exactly that, assuming the driver
> > > doesn't reject the device in the probe function.
> > > 
> > ok, fair enough, but still, I don't see the _generic_ need for having a
> > kernel feature that allows some random driver to bind to a device, but
> > then again, I'm not an authority in this area.
> 
> Again, this is already there, and has been for years with no problems,
> so I really don't understand the issue you have with it.
> 
As I said, I'm not an authority, just sounded to me like we were trying
to build something very generic to solve a very specific case, but I
certainly don't want to invent problems that don't exist.

-Christoffer