On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM David Matlack <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2025-11-26 07:35 PM, David Matlack wrote: > > Require driver_override to be set to bind an incoming Live Update > > preserved device to a driver. Auto-probing could lead to the device > > being bound to a different driver than what was bound to the device > > prior to Live Update. > > > > Delegate binding preserved devices to the right driver to userspace by > > requiring driver_override to be set on the device. > > > > This restriction is relaxed once a driver calls > > pci_liveupdate_incoming_finish(). > > > > Signed-off-by: David Matlack <[email protected]> > > After some offline discussion with Jason and Pasha, I will drop this > patch from the next version to avoid hard-coding a policy in the kernel. > > Instead, for the time being, it will be the user's responsibility to > only preserve devices that do not have any built-in drivers that will > bind to the device during boot following a Live Update.
Ack, that certainly can simplify the PCI kernel side of the code, the kernel doesn't need to deal with PCI driver binding. Chris
