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SubjectRe: RFC: (re-)binding the VFIO platform driver to a platform device
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On Wed, 2013-10-02 at 13:25 -0500, Yoder Stuart-B08248 wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christoffer Dall [mailto:christoffer.dall@linaro.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 10:14 AM
> > To: Alex Williamson
> > Cc: Kim Phillips; gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; linux-
> > kernel@vger.kernel.org; a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com; agraf@suse.de;
> > Yoder Stuart-B08248; Wood Scott-B07421; Sethi Varun-B16395; Bhushan
> > Bharat-R65777; peter.maydell@linaro.org; santosh.shukla@linaro.org;
> > kvm@vger.kernel.org
> > Subject: Re: RFC: (re-)binding the VFIO platform driver to a platform
> > device
> >
> > Wouldn't a sysfs file to add compatibility strings to the vfio-platform
> > driver make driver_match_device return true and make everyone happy?
>
> I had a similar thought. Why can't we do something like:
>
> echo "fsl,i2c" > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/vfio-platform/new_compatible
> echo 12ce0000.i2c > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/vfio-platform/bind
>
> The first steps tell vfio-platform to register itself to handle
> "fsl,i2c" compatible devices. The second step does the bind.

Needing to specify the compatible is hacky (we already know what device
we want to bind; why do we need to scrounge up more information than
that, and add a new sysfs interface for extending compatible matches,
and a more flexible data structure to back that up?), and is racy on
buses that can hotplug (which driver gets the new device?).

What's wrong with a non-vfio-specific flag that a driver can set, that
indicates that the driver is willing to try to bind to any device on the
bus if explicitly requested via the existing sysfs bind mechanism?

-Scott





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