Re: [REPOST][PATCH 2/2] driver core: platform: allow platform drivers to bind to any device

2013-12-19 Thread Scott Wood
On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 17:03 -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 12:34:54PM +, Kim Phillips wrote: Platform drivers such as the vfio-platform meta- driver [1] should be allowed to specify that they can bind to any device, much like PCI drivers can with PCI_ANY_ID.

Re: [REPOST][PATCH 2/2] driver core: platform: allow platform drivers to bind to any device

2013-12-19 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 02:29:21PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote: On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 17:03 -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 12:34:54PM +, Kim Phillips wrote: Platform drivers such as the vfio-platform meta- driver [1] should be allowed to specify that they can

Re: [REPOST][PATCH 2/2] driver core: platform: allow platform drivers to bind to any device

2013-12-19 Thread Scott Wood
On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 12:44 -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 02:29:21PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote: On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 17:03 -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 12:34:54PM +, Kim Phillips wrote: diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c

Re: [REPOST][PATCH 2/2] driver core: platform: allow platform drivers to bind to any device

2013-12-18 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 12:34:54PM +, Kim Phillips wrote: Platform drivers such as the vfio-platform meta- driver [1] should be allowed to specify that they can bind to any device, much like PCI drivers can with PCI_ANY_ID. Currently, binding platform drivers to devices depends on: -

[REPOST][PATCH 2/2] driver core: platform: allow platform drivers to bind to any device

2013-12-03 Thread Kim Phillips
Platform drivers such as the vfio-platform meta- driver [1] should be allowed to specify that they can bind to any device, much like PCI drivers can with PCI_ANY_ID. Currently, binding platform drivers to devices depends on: - a string match in the device node's compatible entry (OF) - a string