Hello,

On Mon, Sep 21, 2026 at 06:24:39PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> You're probably not wrong about opt-in being the more natural choice,
> but looking at commit 3d713e0e382e ("driver core: platform: add device
> binding path 'driver_override'"), the intended use-cases are very
> generic, so it would probably lead to a continuous stream of patches
> needing to be added whenever a new device wants to be supported with
> vfio or something.

thinking a bit more about that: The use-case presented in that commit is
about

	echo vfio-platform > /sys/bus/platform/devices/fff51000.ethernet/driver_override

. If we had an opt-in mechanism on the driver side, it would only be
vfio* that would need it, wouldn't it? That sounds handleable.

Best regards
Uwe