From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com>
Cc: alex.williamson@redhat.com, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu,
iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
tech@virtualopensystems.com, a.rigo@virtualopensystems.com,
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jan.kiszka@siemens.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
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christoffer.dall@linaro.org, agraf@suse.de, B16395@freescale.com,
will.deacon@arm.com, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 01/10] driver core: export driver_probe_device()
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:27:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140214222716.GA11838@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1391880580-471-2-git-send-email-a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com>
On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 06:29:31PM +0100, Antonios Motakis wrote:
> From: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@linaro.org>
>
> Needed by drivers, such as the vfio platform driver [1], seeking to
> bypass bind_store()'s driver_match_device(), and bind to any device
> via a private sysfs bind file.
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/11/522
>
> note: the EXPORT_SYMBOL is needed because vfio-platform can be built
> as a module.
No code outside of drivers/base/ should be calling this function, you
are doing something wrong in your bus if you want to do this, please fix
your bus code.
sorry, I can't accept this at all.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-14 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-08 17:29 [RFC PATCH v4 00/10] VFIO support for platform devices Antonios Motakis
2014-02-08 17:29 ` [RFC PATCH v4 01/10] driver core: export driver_probe_device() Antonios Motakis
2014-02-14 22:27 ` Greg KH [this message]
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2014-03-31 18:47 ` mechanism to allow a driver to bind to any device Stuart Yoder
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2014-03-31 22:32 ` Kim Phillips
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2014-03-31 22:36 ` Kim Phillips
2014-03-31 23:52 ` Alex Williamson
2014-02-08 17:29 ` [RFC PATCH v4 02/10] VFIO_IOMMU_TYPE1: Introduce the VFIO_DMA_MAP_FLAG_EXEC flag Antonios Motakis
2014-02-10 20:04 ` Alex Williamson
2014-02-08 17:29 ` [RFC PATCH v4 03/10] VFIO_IOMMU_TYPE1: workaround to build for platform devices Antonios Motakis
2014-02-08 17:29 ` [RFC PATCH v4 04/10] VFIO_PLATFORM: Initial skeleton of VFIO support " Antonios Motakis
2014-02-08 17:29 ` [RFC PATCH v4 05/10] VFIO_PLATFORM: Return info for device and its memory mapped IO regions Antonios Motakis
2014-02-10 22:32 ` Alex Williamson
2014-02-08 17:29 ` [RFC PATCH v4 06/10] VFIO_PLATFORM: Read and write support for the device fd Antonios Motakis
2014-02-10 22:45 ` Alex Williamson
2014-02-10 23:12 ` Scott Wood
2014-02-10 23:20 ` Alex Williamson
2014-02-08 17:29 ` [RFC PATCH v4 07/10] VFIO_PLATFORM: Support MMAP of MMIO regions Antonios Motakis
2014-02-08 17:29 ` [RFC PATCH v4 08/10] VFIO_PLATFORM: Return IRQ info Antonios Motakis
2014-02-08 17:29 ` [RFC PATCH v4 09/10] VFIO_PLATFORM: Initial interrupts support Antonios Motakis
2014-02-08 17:29 ` [RFC PATCH v4 10/10] VFIO_PLATFORM: Support for maskable and automasked interrupts Antonios Motakis
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