Re: [RFC 1/5] driver core: amba: add device binding path 'driver_override'

2014-08-26 Thread Antonios Motakis
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Kim Phillips wrote: > On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 11:01:24 +0200 > Antonios Motakis 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. Th

Re: [RFC 1/5] driver core: amba: add device binding path 'driver_override'

2014-08-25 Thread Kim Phillips
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 11:01:24 +0200 Antonios Motakis 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 b

[RFC 1/5] driver core: amba: add device binding path 'driver_override'

2014-08-22 Thread Antonios Motakis
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