driver core: platform: add device binding path 'driver_override'
Needed by platform device drivers, such as the upcoming vfio-platform driver, in order to bypass the existing OF, ACPI, id_table and name string matches, and successfully be able to be bound to any device, like so: echo vfio-platform > /sys/bus/platform/devices/fff51000.ethernet/driver_override echo fff51000.ethernet > /sys/bus/platform/devices/fff51000.ethernet/driver/unbind echo fff51000.ethernet > /sys/bus/platform/drivers_probe This mimics "PCI: Introduce new device binding path using pci_dev.driver_override", which is an interface enhancement for more deterministic PCI device binding, e.g., when in the presence of hotplug. Reviewed-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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