Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Oct 2013 13:37:35 -0700 | From | "" <> | Subject | Re: RFC: (re-)binding the VFIO platform driver to a platform device |
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On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 11:43:30AM -0700, Christoffer Dall wrote: > > 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? > > > It sounds more hackish to me to invent some 'generic' flag to solve a > very specific case. What you're suggesting would let users specify that > a serial driver should handle a NIC hardware, no? That sounds much much > worse to me.
You can do that today, with any PCI driver (or USB driver as well), just use the bind/unbind files in sysfs and you had better "know" what you are doing...
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