linux/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-vmbus
Stephen Hemminger d765edbb30 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>
2018-09-12 09:46:46 +02:00

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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.