linux-kernel - [PATCHv7 08/26] driver core: amba: add documentation for binding path 'driver

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Date:	Tue, 23 Sep 2014 16:46:07 +0200
From:	Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@...tualopensystems.com>
To:	alex.williamson@...hat.com, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
	iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Cc:	tech@...tualopensystems.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	christoffer.dall@...aro.org, will.deacon@....com,
	kim.phillips@...escale.com, eric.auger@...aro.org,
	marc.zyngier@....com,
	Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@...tualopensystems.com>,
	linux-api@...r.kernel.org (open list:ABI/API),
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: [PATCHv7 08/26] driver core: amba: add documentation for binding path 'driver_override'

Add documentation for alternative binding path 'driver_override' for
AMBA devices.

Signed-off-by: Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@...tualopensystems.com>
---
 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-amba | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-amba

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-amba b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-amba
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e7b5467
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-amba
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+What:		/sys/bus/amba/devices/.../driver_override
+Date:		September 2014
+Contact:	Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@...tualopensystems.com>
+Description:
+		This file allows the driver for a device to be specified which
+		will override standard OF, ACPI, ID table, and name matching.
+		When specified, only a driver with a name matching the value
+		written to driver_override will have an opportunity to bind to
+		the device. The override is specified by writing a string to the
+		driver_override file (echo vfio-amba > driver_override)	and may
+		be cleared with an empty string (echo > driver_override).
+		This returns the device to standard matching rules binding.
+		Writing to driver_override does not automatically unbind the
+		device from its current driver or make any attempt to
+		automatically load the specified driver. If no driver with a
+		matching name is currently loaded in the kernel, the device will
+		not bind to any driver. This also allows devices to opt-out of
+		driver binding using a driver_override name such as "none".
+		Only a single driver may be specified in the override, there is
+		no support for parsing delimiters.
-- 
1.8.3.2

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