[PATCH 2/5] rpmsg: Introduce a driver override mechanism

From: Bjorn Andersson
Date: Sat Oct 08 2016 - 00:24:19 EST


Similar to other subsystems it's useful to provide a mechanism to force
a specific driver match on a device, so introduce this.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c | 3 +++
include/linux/rpmsg.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c b/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c
index b6ea9ffa7381..087d4db896c8 100644
--- a/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c
+++ b/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c
@@ -315,6 +315,9 @@ static int rpmsg_dev_match(struct device *dev, struct device_driver *drv)
const struct rpmsg_device_id *ids = rpdrv->id_table;
unsigned int i;

+ if (rpdev->driver_override)
+ return !strcmp(rpdev->driver_override, drv->name);
+
if (ids)
for (i = 0; ids[i].name[0]; i++)
if (rpmsg_id_match(rpdev, &ids[i]))
diff --git a/include/linux/rpmsg.h b/include/linux/rpmsg.h
index 452d393cc8dd..7ad6c205f110 100644
--- a/include/linux/rpmsg.h
+++ b/include/linux/rpmsg.h
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ struct rpmsg_channel_info {
* rpmsg_device - device that belong to the rpmsg bus
* @dev: the device struct
* @id: device id (used to match between rpmsg drivers and devices)
+ * @driver_override: driver name to force a match
* @src: local address
* @dst: destination address
* @ept: the rpmsg endpoint of this channel
@@ -72,6 +73,7 @@ struct rpmsg_channel_info {
struct rpmsg_device {
struct device dev;
struct rpmsg_device_id id;
+ char *driver_override;
u32 src;
u32 dst;
struct rpmsg_endpoint *ept;
--
2.5.0