On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 11:43:30AM -0700, Christoffer Dall wrote: > > What's wrong with a non-vfio-specific flag that a driver can set, that > > indicates that the driver is willing to try to bind to any device on the > > bus if explicitly requested via the existing sysfs bind mechanism? > > > It sounds more hackish to me to invent some 'generic' flag to solve a > very specific case. What you're suggesting would let users specify that > a serial driver should handle a NIC hardware, no? That sounds much much > worse to me.
You can do that today, with any PCI driver (or USB driver as well), just use the bind/unbind files in sysfs and you had better "know" what you are doing... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
