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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: add remove_id sysfs entry
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:33:19 -0800
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On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 06:12:44PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> This adds a remove_id sysfs entry to allow users of new_id to later
> remove the added dynid.  One use case is management tools that want to
> dynamically bind/unbind devices to pci-stub driver while devices are
> assigned to KVM guests.  Rather than having to track which driver was
> originally bound to the driver, a mangement tool can simply:
> 
> # echo "8086 10f5" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/pci-stub/new_id

As you're adding a new sysfs file, can you please document it in
Documentation/ABI?  I know the original bind and unbind files aren't
documented there, they were created before the ABI/ directory showed up.

It would be nice to add them as well if anyone wants to :)

thanks,

greg k-h