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Subject: Re: mechanism to allow a driver to bind to any device
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 23:59:42 -0700
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:39:57PM +0100, Antonios Motakis wrote:
> 
> Of note is that new_id doesn't work particularly well for platform devices.

Nor should it.  Platform devices suck horribly, and "ids" mean nothing
to them, so you shouldn't even try this.  Use a "real" bus and it should
be fine.

greg k-h