Hi Patrice,
On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 06:20, Patrice Chotard <patrice.chot...@st.com> wrote:
>
> Add documentation in doc/drivel-model for the bind/unbind command.
> Part of this documentation is extracted from original patch commit
> message:
> commit 49c752c93a78 ("cmd: Add bind/unbind commands to bind a device to a
> driver from the command line")
>
> Signed-off-by: Patrice Chotard <patrice.chot...@st.com>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2: None
>
> doc/driver-model/bind.rst | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> doc/driver-model/index.rst | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 doc/driver-model/bind.rst
>
> diff --git a/doc/driver-model/bind.rst b/doc/driver-model/bind.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..df6b5f143b
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/doc/driver-model/bind.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
> +.. sectionauthor:: Patrice Chotard <patrice.chot...@st.com>
> +
> +Binding/unbiding a driver
unbinding
> +=========================
> +
> +This documents aims to describe the bind and unbind commands.
document
> +
> +For debug purpose, it should be useful to bind or unbind a driver from
For debugging
> +the U-boot command line.
> +
> +The unbind command calls the remove device driver callback and unbind the
> +device from its driver.
> +
> +The bind command binds a device to its driver.
> +
> +In some cases it can be useful to be able to bind a device to a driver from
> +the command line.
> +The obvious example is for versatile devices such as USB gadget.
> +Another use case is when the devices are not yet ready at startup and
> +require some setup before the drivers are bound (ex: FPGA which bitsream is
> +fetched from a mass storage or ethernet)
> +
> +usage example:
> +
> +bind usb_dev_generic 0 usb_ether
> +unbind usb_dev_generic 0 usb_ether
can you mention what the two parameters are and how to find them?
> +or
> +unbind eth 1
> +
> +bind /ocp/omap_dwc3@48380000/usb@48390000 usb_ether
> +unbind /ocp/omap_dwc3@48380000/usb@48390000
> diff --git a/doc/driver-model/index.rst b/doc/driver-model/index.rst
> index b9df221627..37ef3721df 100644
> --- a/doc/driver-model/index.rst
> +++ b/doc/driver-model/index.rst
> @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Driver Model
> .. toctree::
> :maxdepth: 2
>
> + bind
> debugging
> design
> ethernet
> --
> 2.17.1
>
Regards,
Simon
