Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Nov 2004 13:50:18 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.10-rc1 0/4] driver-model: manual device attach |
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Hello, Greg,
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:53:19AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > How does a device know what drivers could be bound to it? It's the > other way around, drivers know what kind of devices they can bind to. > Let's add the ability to add more devices to a driver through sysfs, > again, like PCI does. > > > Writing a driver name attaches the device to the driver. > > No, do it the other way, attach a driver to a device.
Well, I just happen to think that devices attach to drivers as in "attaching pci device 0000:00:08.0 to e1000 driver". Maybe I'm just weird. :-P
-- tejun
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