From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 21:11:13 +0000 Subject: Re: grey- and blacklisting drivers [Was: Re: Using the "best available" driver] Message-Id: <20051211211113.GB16121@vrfy.org> List-Id: References: <20051207181524.71dc2d41.zaitcev@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20051207181524.71dc2d41.zaitcev@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 09:00:31PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 12:20:04PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Sunday 11 December 2005 01:43, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > add "autobind" control to modules to specify device binding policy > > > > > > This adds a sysfs control to every driver to control the automatic > > > binding of drivers to devices. If set to "0", the driver will only > > > bind devices if explicitely asked for, by using the "bind" file. > > > > > > > Can we please change name to "bind_mode" so I can convert serio bus > > to use driver core instead of implementing its own mechanism but won't > > break few users who use it right now? > > Well, we'd need to decide on the semantics then -- Kay has "0" and "1", you > have "manual" and "auto"... I have a slight preference for the verbose names, > for this would make the patch I suggest (see other mail) a bit easier to > write :-) Sure, that's fine, if there is the possibility of the binding behavior to ever become more than a boolean. Thanks, Kay ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel