Re: grey- and blacklisting drivers [Was: Re: Using the "best available" driver]

From: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: grey- and blacklisting drivers [Was: Re: Using the "best available" driver]
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 20:00:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051211200031.GB32308@isilmar.linta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051207181524.71dc2d41.zaitcev@redhat.com>

Hi,

On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 12:20:04PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Sunday 11 December 2005 01:43, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > add "autobind" control to modules to specify device binding policy
> > 
> > This adds a sysfs control to every driver to control the automatic
> > binding of drivers to devices. If set to "0", the driver will only
> > bind devices if explicitely asked for, by using the "bind" file.
> > 
> 
> Can we please change name to "bind_mode" so I can convert serio bus
> to use driver core instead of implementing its own mechanism but won't
> break few users who use it right now?

Well, we'd need to decide on the semantics then -- Kay has "0" and "1", you
have "manual" and "auto"... I have a slight preference for the verbose names,
for this would make the patch I suggest (see other mail) a bit easier to
write :-)

Thanks,
	Dominik

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