From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: mechanism to allow a driver to bind to any device Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:47:05 -0700 Message-ID: <20140331194705.GA13014@kroah.com> References: <7043e1edd9974de590dcb392cd8aff14@DM2PR03MB352.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> <20140215173348.GA8056@kroah.com> <20140220224337.GA20097@kroah.com> <54cd150235ba4954becdd12f725c5ebd@DM2PR03MB352.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> <20140326144025.GA18387@phenom.dumpdata.com> <1395850862.632.247.camel@ul30vt.home> <1395871761.632.316.camel@ul30vt.home> <7d1b495cdb6a415e8d3b7f60f409991c@DM2PR03MB352.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7d1b495cdb6a415e8d3b7f60f409991c-ufbTtyGzTTT8GZusEWM6WuO6mTEJWrR4XA4E9RH9d+qIuWR1G4zioA@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: iommu-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: iommu-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org To: Stuart Yoder Cc: "kvm-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "jan.kiszka-kv7WeFo6aLtBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org" , "will.deacon-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org" , "a.rigo-lrHrjnjw1UfHK3s98zE1ajGjJy/sRE9J@public.gmane.org" , Michal Hocko , Bjorn Helgaas , Varun Sethi , "kvmarm-FPEHb7Xf0XXUo1n7N8X6UoWGPAHP3yOg@public.gmane.org" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Alexander Graf , Guenter Roeck , Dmitry Kasatkin , Tejun Heo , Scott Wood , Antonios Motakis , "tech-lrHrjnjw1UfHK3s98zE1ajGjJy/sRE9J@public.gmane.org" , Toshi Kani , "linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "iommu-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org" List-Id: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 06:47:51PM +0000, Stuart Yoder wrote: > I also, was at the point where I thought we should perhaps just > go with current mechanisms and implement new_id for the platform > bus...but Greg's recent response is 'platform devices suck' and it sounds > like he would reject a new_id patch for the platform bus. So it kind > of feels like we are stuck. ids mean nothing in the platform device model, so having a new_id file for them makes no sense. greg k-h