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| author | Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> | 2018-08-10 23:06:08 +0000 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-09-12 09:46:46 +0200 |
| commit | d765edbb301c0e196015a59b17420558088ea33f (patch) | |
| tree | fbaad4a61147cc91b1cc20f0952dba8ca0498446 /Documentation | |
| parent | 83b15fed91fa23facd159fb72c82241cbdc93d3f (diff) | |
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vmbus: add driver_override support
Add support for overriding the default driver for a VMBus device
in the same way that it can be done for PCI devices. This patch
adds the /sys/bus/vmbus/devices/.../driver_override file
and the logic for matching.
This is used by driverctl tool to do driver override.
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Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-vmbus | 21 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-vmbus b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-vmbus new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..91e6c065973c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-vmbus @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +What: /sys/bus/vmbus/devices/.../driver_override +Date: August 2019 +Contact: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com> +Description: + This file allows the driver for a device to be specified which + will override standard static and dynamic ID matching. When + specified, only a driver with a name matching the value written + to driver_override will have an opportunity to bind to the + device. The override is specified by writing a string to the + driver_override file (echo uio_hv_generic > driver_override) and + may be cleared with an empty string (echo > driver_override). + This returns the device to standard matching rules binding. + Writing to driver_override does not automatically unbind the + device from its current driver or make any attempt to + automatically load the specified driver. If no driver with a + matching name is currently loaded in the kernel, the device + will not bind to any driver. This also allows devices to + opt-out of driver binding using a driver_override name such as + "none". Only a single driver may be specified in the override, + there is no support for parsing delimiters. + |