Re: Disable bus's drivers_autoprobe before rootfs has mounted

From: Felipe Balbi
Date: Wed Jun 11 2014 - 15:36:55 EST


On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:29:57AM +0800, Peter Chen wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:35:07PM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 09:10:00PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > Let's take USB peripheral as an example, there is a device for
> > > > udc, and a device driver for usb gadget driver, at default, we want
> > > > the device to be bound to driver automatically, this is what
> > > > we have done now. But if there are more than one udcs and gadget
> > > > drivers (eg one B port for mass storage, another B port for usb ethernet),
> > > > the user may want to have specific binding (eg, udc-0 -> mass storage,
> > > > udc-1 -> usb ethernet), so the binding will be established
> > > > after rootfs has mounted. (This feature is implementing)
> > >
> > > Then there better be a way to describe this on the kernel command line
> > > (i.e. module paramaters), right? Which is a total mess, why not just
> > > not bind anything in this case and let the user pick what they want?
> >
> > you can also blacklist all gadget drivers and manually probe them or -
> > get this - you can refrain from using gadget drivers and use libusbg to
> > build the gadget drivers out of raw usb functions, then bind them to the
> > UDC of your liking.
> >
>
> I am just worried if we change the behaviour of using gadget driver,
> can it be accepted by user? If you think it can be accepted if we can
> have some docs, we can implement manually binding for gadget driver
> from now on.

user shouldn't have to deal with direct module insertion/removal (unless
he's a developer and actually *wants* to do that). Docs are already in
tree. The entire configfs interface has been documented, it's based on
those documents that Matt started writing libusbg.

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balbi

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