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authorStephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>2018-08-11 01:06:08 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-09-12 09:46:46 +0200
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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. https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.com%2Fdriverctl%2Fdriverctl&amp;data=02%7C01%7Ckys%40microsoft.com%7C42e803feb2c544ef6ea908d5fd538878%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636693457619960040&amp;sdata=kEyYHRIjNZCk%2B37moCSqbrZL426YccNQrsWpENcrZdw%3D&amp;reserved=0 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>
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+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.
+