Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Jun 2005 22:12:29 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | [RFC] bind and unbind drivers from userspace through sysfs |
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Now that we have the internal infrastructure of the driver model reworked so the locks aren't so global and imposing, it's possible to bind and unbind drivers from devices from userspace with only a very tiny ammount of code.
In reply to this email, are two patches, one that adds bind and one that adds unbind functionality. I've added these to my trees and should show up in the next -mm releases. Comments appreciated.
Oh, and yes, we still need a way to add new device ids to drivers from sysfs, like PCI currently has. I'll be working on that next.
Even so, with these two patches, people should be able to do things that they have been wanting to do for a while (like take over the what driver to what device logic in userspace, as I know some distro installers really want to do.)
thanks,
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