linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] drivers core: allow id match override when manually binding driver

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Date:	Mon, 27 Jun 2016 12:09:49 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...il.com>
Cc:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-spi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] drivers core: allow id match override when
 manually binding driver

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 09:02:32PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> The spi bus has no autodetection whatsoever. The 'detection' of the
> device that's suposed to be on the other side completely relies on user
> supplied information coming from devicetree on many platforms. It is
> completely reasonable then to allow the user to supply the information
> at runtime by doing echo 'somedevice' >
> /sys/bus/spi/drivers/somedriver/bind
> This fails if somedriver does not have in its id table compatible of
> somedevice so just skip this check for manual driver binding.

That's what the new_id file is for, right?

thanks,

greg k-h