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

From: Kim Phillips
Date: Mon Oct 13 2014 - 09:28:47 EST


On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 15:07:34 +0200
Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As already demonstrated with PCI [1] and the platform bus [2], a
> driver_override property in sysfs can be used to bypass the id matching
> of a device to a AMBA driver. This can be used by VFIO to bind to any AMBA
> device requested by the user.
>
> [1] http://lists-archives.com/linux-kernel/28030441-pci-introduce-new-device-binding-path-using-pci_dev-driver_override.html
> [2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-April/msg00382.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Kim
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