Re: [PATCH] driver core: platform: add device binding path 'driver_override'

2014-07-08 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 07:42:58PM -0500, Kim Phillips wrote: Needed by platform device drivers, such as the upcoming vfio-platform driver, in order to bypass the existing OF, ACPI, id_table and name string matches, and successfully be able to be bound to any device, like so: echo

Re: [PATCH] driver core: platform: add device binding path 'driver_override'

2014-07-07 Thread Kim Phillips
On Mon, 2 Jun 2014 21:28:42 -0700 Greg KH gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 07:42:58PM -0500, Kim Phillips wrote: You are the platform driver core maintainer: can you apply this to your driver-core tree now? Yes, I will after this merge window ends, it's too late

Re: [PATCH] driver core: platform: add device binding path 'driver_override'

2014-06-25 Thread Kim Phillips
On Mon, 2 Jun 2014 21:28:42 -0700 Greg KH gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 07:42:58PM -0500, Kim Phillips wrote: You are the platform driver core maintainer: can you apply this to your driver-core tree now? Yes, I will after this merge window ends, it's too late

[PATCH] driver core: platform: add device binding path 'driver_override'

2014-06-02 Thread Kim Phillips
Needed by platform device drivers, such as the upcoming vfio-platform driver, in order to bypass the existing OF, ACPI, id_table and name string matches, and successfully be able to be bound to any device, like so: echo vfio-platform /sys/bus/platform/devices/fff51000.ethernet/driver_override

Re: [PATCH] driver core: platform: add device binding path 'driver_override'

2014-06-02 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 07:42:58PM -0500, Kim Phillips wrote: Needed by platform device drivers, such as the upcoming vfio-platform driver, in order to bypass the existing OF, ACPI, id_table and name string matches, and successfully be able to be bound to any device, like so: echo

RE: [PATCH] driver core: platform: add device binding path 'driver_override'

2014-04-10 Thread Stuart Yoder
; libvir-l...@redhat.com; io...@lists.linux-foundation.org; t...@virtualopensystems.com; kvm...@lists.cs.columbia.edu; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; Guenter Roeck; christoffer.d...@linaro.org Subject: [PATCH] driver core: platform: add device binding path 'driver_override' Needed by platform

[PATCH] driver core: platform: add device binding path 'driver_override'

2014-04-08 Thread Kim Phillips
Needed by platform device drivers, such as the vfio-platform driver [1], in order to bypass the existing OF, ACPI, id_table and name string matches, and successfully be able to be bound to any device, like so: echo vfio-platform /sys/bus/platform/devices/fff51000.ethernet/driver_override echo