[PATCHv7 08/26] driver core: amba: add documentation for binding path 'driver_override'
From: Antonios Motakis <hidden>
Date: 2014-09-23 14:47:17
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kvm, linux-iommu, lkml
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
Add documentation for alternative binding path 'driver_override' for AMBA devices. Signed-off-by: Antonios Motakis <a.motakis-lrHrjnjw1UfHK3s98zE1ajGjJy/sRE9J@public.gmane.org> --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-amba | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-amba
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-amba b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-amba
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+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-amba@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +What: /sys/bus/amba/devices/.../driver_override +Date: September 2014 +Contact: Antonios Motakis <a.motakis-lrHrjnjw1UfHK3s98zE1ajGjJy/sRE9J@public.gmane.org> +Description: + This file allows the driver for a device to be specified which + will override standard OF, ACPI, ID table, and name 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 vfio-amba > 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.
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