linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] driver: base: Add driver filter support

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Date:   Thu, 5 Aug 2021 09:55:33 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan 
        <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <knsathya@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] driver: base: Add driver filter support

On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 09:49:29AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 04, 2021 at 12:50:24PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > And what's wrong with the current method of removing drivers from
> > > devices that you do not want them to be bound to?  We offer that support
> > > for all busses now that want to do it, what driver types are you needing
> > > to "control" here that does not take advantage of the existing
> > > infrastructure that we currently have for this type of thing?
> > 
> > I'm not sure what mechanism you're referring to here, but in general don't
> > want the drivers to initialize at all because they might get exploited in
> > any code that they execute.
> 
> That is exactly the mechanism we have today in the kernel for all busses
> if they wish to take advantage of it.  We have had this for all USB
> drivers for well over a decade now, this is not a new feature.  Please
> use that instead.

Hm, wait, maybe that didn't get merged yet, let me dig...