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driver core: platform: add device binding path 'driver_override'

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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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Kim Phillips 2014-06-02 19:42:58 -05:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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commit 3d713e0e38
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@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ struct platform_device {
struct resource *resource;
const struct platform_device_id *id_entry;
char *driver_override; /* Driver name to force a match */
/* MFD cell pointer */
struct mfd_cell *mfd_cell;