Re: [PATCH v3] uio/pdrv_genirq: Add OF support

[Grant Likely]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 April 2011, Grant Likely wrote:
>> > or whatever, as this would bind all instances matching vendor,device.
>> >
>> > So, the question I have is, how to handle bind per-instance?
>>
>> By manipulating a property on the device instance of course!  :-)
>>
>> Something like:  echo "generic-uio" >>
>> /sys/devices/path/to/device/a-property-that-changes-the-driver-it-will-bind-to.
>>
>
> But what code would create that in sysfs, and based on what properties
> of the device? Should we do that for every platform device, or perhaps
> for every one that has any resources?

Yes, I think it can be a generic facility for all platform_devices.
We already have some code to support user-space manipulated driver
binding/unbinding.  This is very much in the same vein.

g.
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