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Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 13:37:35 -0700 From: "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> To: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@...aro.org> Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@...escale.com>, Yoder Stuart-B08248 <B08248@...escale.com>, Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>, Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@...aro.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "a.motakis@...tualopensystems.com" <a.motakis@...tualopensystems.com>, "agraf@...e.de" <agraf@...e.de>, Wood Scott-B07421 <B07421@...escale.com>, Sethi Varun-B16395 <B16395@...escale.com>, Bhushan Bharat-R65777 <R65777@...escale.com>, "peter.maydell@...aro.org" <peter.maydell@...aro.org>, "santosh.shukla@...aro.org" <santosh.shukla@...aro.org>, "kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: RFC: (re-)binding the VFIO platform driver to a platform device On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 11:43:30AM -0700, Christoffer Dall wrote: > > What's wrong with a non-vfio-specific flag that a driver can set, that > > indicates that the driver is willing to try to bind to any device on the > > bus if explicitly requested via the existing sysfs bind mechanism? > > > It sounds more hackish to me to invent some 'generic' flag to solve a > very specific case. What you're suggesting would let users specify that > a serial driver should handle a NIC hardware, no? That sounds much much > worse to me. You can do that today, with any PCI driver (or USB driver as well), just use the bind/unbind files in sysfs and you had better "know" what you are doing... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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