From: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>,
Yoder Stuart-B08248 <B08248@freescale.com>,
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@linaro.org>,
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Bhushan Bharat-R65777 <R65777@freescale.com>,
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Subject: Re: RFC: (re-)binding the VFIO platform driver to a platform device
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 11:54:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131003185434.GA26123@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1380825207.12932.151.camel@snotra.buserror.net>
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 01:33:27PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> What it looks like we do still want from the driver core is the ability
> for a driver to say that it should not be bound to a device except via
> explicit sysfs bind,
You can do that today by not providing any device ids in your driver
structure, relying on the dynamic ids the driver core creates.
> and the ability for a user to say that a device should not be bound to
> a driver except via explicit sysfs bind.
That's not going to happen, as how can the kernel know a specific device
is going to want this, before it asks the drivers about it?
Or, just don't ever create a driver that matches that device, then rely
on userspace to do the binding explicitly.
Either way, no driver core changes are needed from what I can tell.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-03 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-01 18:38 RFC: (re-)binding the VFIO platform driver to a platform device Kim Phillips
2013-10-01 19:15 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-01 19:17 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-01 22:01 ` Kim Phillips
2013-10-01 21:59 ` Kim Phillips
2013-10-01 22:44 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-01 20:00 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-01 22:02 ` Kim Phillips
2013-10-02 1:53 ` Christoffer Dall
2013-10-02 2:35 ` Alex Williamson
2013-10-02 15:14 ` Christoffer Dall
2013-10-02 15:29 ` Alex Williamson
2013-10-02 18:25 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2013-10-02 18:32 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-02 18:43 ` Christoffer Dall
2013-10-02 20:04 ` Kim Phillips
2013-10-02 20:13 ` Christoffer Dall
2013-10-02 20:19 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-02 20:14 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-02 20:27 ` Christoffer Dall
2013-10-02 20:39 ` gregkh
2013-10-02 20:44 ` Christoffer Dall
2013-10-02 20:37 ` gregkh
2013-10-02 20:42 ` Christoffer Dall
2013-10-02 21:08 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-02 21:16 ` gregkh
2013-10-02 21:35 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-02 23:40 ` gregkh
2013-10-03 18:33 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-03 18:54 ` gregkh [this message]
2013-10-03 19:11 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-03 20:32 ` gregkh
2013-10-09 19:02 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2013-10-09 19:16 ` gregkh
2013-10-09 19:49 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-09 19:21 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-09 19:44 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2013-10-09 19:44 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2013-10-09 20:03 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-10 3:05 ` Kim Phillips
2013-10-10 8:01 ` Bhushan Bharat-R65777
2013-10-10 15:27 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-11 6:27 ` [PATCH 1/4] driver core: Add new device_driver flag to allow binding via sysfs only Kim Phillips
2013-10-11 6:27 ` [PATCH 2/4] driver core: platform: allow platform drivers to bind to any device Kim Phillips
2013-10-11 6:27 ` [PATCH 3/4] VFIO: pci: amend vfio-pci for explicit binding via sysfs only Kim Phillips
2013-10-11 20:43 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-11 23:17 ` Kim Phillips
2013-10-14 13:01 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2013-10-14 17:13 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-24 11:32 ` Bhushan Bharat-R65777
2013-10-28 17:47 ` Alex Williamson
2013-10-28 18:00 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-28 18:09 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-29 3:38 ` Bhushan Bharat-R65777
2013-10-29 3:38 ` Bhushan Bharat-R65777
2013-10-29 3:40 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-29 3:52 ` Bhushan Bharat-R65777
2013-10-29 3:52 ` Bhushan Bharat-R65777
2013-10-29 4:29 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-29 4:31 ` Bhushan Bharat-R65777
2013-10-29 4:31 ` Bhushan Bharat-R65777
2013-10-29 4:35 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-29 4:45 ` Bhushan Bharat-R65777
2013-10-29 4:45 ` Bhushan Bharat-R65777
2013-10-29 4:54 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-29 6:39 ` Bhushan Bharat-R65777
2013-10-29 6:39 ` Bhushan Bharat-R65777
2013-10-11 6:27 ` [PATCH] VFIO: platform: allow the driver to bind to any device explicitly via sysfs Kim Phillips
2013-10-10 7:45 ` RFC: (re-)binding the VFIO platform driver to a platform device Bhushan Bharat-R65777
2013-10-10 7:45 ` Bhushan Bharat-R65777
2013-10-10 13:43 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2013-10-10 13:43 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2013-10-10 15:23 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-10 15:25 ` Bhushan Bharat-R65777
2013-10-10 15:25 ` Bhushan Bharat-R65777
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