bus/fsl-mc: add support for 'driver_override' in the mc-bus
authorBharat Bhushan <Bharat.Bhushan@nxp.com>
Tue, 29 Sep 2020 08:54:31 +0000 (11:54 +0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 2 Oct 2020 14:05:01 +0000 (16:05 +0200)
commit1f86a00c1159fd77e66b1bd6ff1a183f4d46f34d
tree4453896a77a54ce6e71d61ecbefdf74c7924760c
parent35df88208c8bf46bfaa65e8517b60d5c318033f1
bus/fsl-mc: add support for 'driver_override' in the mc-bus

This patch is required for vfio-fsl-mc meta driver to successfully bind
layerscape container devices for device passthrough. This patch adds
a mechanism to allow a layerscape device to specify a driver rather than
a layerscape driver provide a device match.

Example to allow a device (dprc.1) to specifically bind
with driver (vfio-fsl-mc):-
 - echo vfio-fsl-mc > /sys/bus/fsl-mc/devices/dprc.1/driver_override
 - echo dprc.1 > /sys/bus/fsl-mc/drivers/fsl_mc_dprc/unbind
 - echo dprc.1 > /sys/bus/fsl-mc/drivers/vfio-fsl-mc/bind

Reviewed-by: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <Bharat.Bhushan@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@oss.nxp.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200929085441.17448-4-diana.craciun@oss.nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c
include/linux/fsl/mc.h