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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] VFIO: pci: amend vfio-pci for explicit binding via
 sysfs only
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 13:00:05 -0500
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Cc: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@linaro.org>,
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To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
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On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 11:47 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 01:27 -0500, Kim Phillips wrote:
> > Force the vfio-pci driver to only be bound explicitly via sysfs to avoid
> > conflics with other drivers in the event of a hotplug.
> 
> We can't break userspace, so we can't disable the current method of
> binding devices to vfio-pci.  We can add a new method and perhaps
> deprecate the existing mechanism to be removed at some point in the
> future.  Thanks,

I thought the existing method involved using sysfs bind, and this was
just eliminating a race.  How does the bind get triggered currently?

-Scott