From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kim Phillips Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: amba: add device binding path 'driver_override' Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 08:23:24 -0500 Message-ID: <20141013082324.362423be23ad44dc391ccd65@freescale.com> References: <1413205672-6236-1-git-send-email-a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1413205672-6236-1-git-send-email-a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Antonios Motakis Cc: Russell King , "open list:ABI/API" , open list , kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, alex.williamson@redhat.com, tech@virtualopensystems.com, christoffer.dall@linaro.org, eric.auger@linaro.org, marc.zyngier@arm.com List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 15:07:34 +0200 Antonios Motakis wrote: > As already demonstrated with PCI [1] and the platform bus [2], a > driver_override property in sysfs can be used to bypass the id matching > of a device to a AMBA driver. This can be used by VFIO to bind to any AMBA > device requested by the user. > > [1] http://lists-archives.com/linux-kernel/28030441-pci-introduce-new-device-binding-path-using-pci_dev-driver_override.html > [2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-April/msg00382.html > > Signed-off-by: Antonios Motakis > --- Reviewed-by: Kim Phillips Kim