Messages in this thread | | | From | Grant Likely <> | Date | Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:45:10 -0600 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] uio/pdrv_genirq: Add OF support |
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On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > On Tuesday 19 April 2011, Grant Likely wrote: >> > or whatever, as this would bind all instances matching vendor,device. >> > >> > So, the question I have is, how to handle bind per-instance? >> >> By manipulating a property on the device instance of course! :-) >> >> Something like: echo "generic-uio" >> >> /sys/devices/path/to/device/a-property-that-changes-the-driver-it-will-bind-to. >> > > But what code would create that in sysfs, and based on what properties > of the device? Should we do that for every platform device, or perhaps > for every one that has any resources?
Yes, I think it can be a generic facility for all platform_devices. We already have some code to support user-space manipulated driver binding/unbinding. This is very much in the same vein.
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