From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 20:57:28 +0000 (-0800) Subject: doc: fix documentation about uio_hv_generic X-Git-Tag: v4.19~1689^2~16 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=44625605a27f1bd9e9b40dc339a95ff638706bdb;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-rpi.git doc: fix documentation about uio_hv_generic The vmbus sysfs file names changed in commit f6b2db084b65 ("vmbus: make sysfs names consistent with PCI") and the uio documenatation does not match the current names. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/uio-howto.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/uio-howto.rst index f73d660..3a0d3f5 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/uio-howto.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/uio-howto.rst @@ -667,27 +667,28 @@ Making the driver recognize the device Since the driver does not declare any device GUID's, it will not get loaded automatically and will not automatically bind to any devices, you must load it and allocate id to the driver yourself. For example, to use -the network device GUID:: +the network device class GUID:: modprobe uio_hv_generic echo "f8615163-df3e-46c5-913f-f2d2f965ed0e" > /sys/bus/vmbus/drivers/uio_hv_generic/new_id If there already is a hardware specific kernel driver for the device, the generic driver still won't bind to it, in this case if you want to -use the generic driver (why would you?) you'll have to manually unbind -the hardware specific driver and bind the generic driver, like this:: +use the generic driver for a userspace library you'll have to manually unbind +the hardware specific driver and bind the generic driver, using the device specific GUID +like this:: - echo -n vmbus-ed963694-e847-4b2a-85af-bc9cfc11d6f3 > /sys/bus/vmbus/drivers/hv_netvsc/unbind - echo -n vmbus-ed963694-e847-4b2a-85af-bc9cfc11d6f3 > /sys/bus/vmbus/drivers/uio_hv_generic/bind + echo -n ed963694-e847-4b2a-85af-bc9cfc11d6f3 > /sys/bus/vmbus/drivers/hv_netvsc/unbind + echo -n ed963694-e847-4b2a-85af-bc9cfc11d6f3 > /sys/bus/vmbus/drivers/uio_hv_generic/bind You can verify that the device has been bound to the driver by looking for it in sysfs, for example like the following:: - ls -l /sys/bus/vmbus/devices/vmbus-ed963694-e847-4b2a-85af-bc9cfc11d6f3/driver + ls -l /sys/bus/vmbus/devices/ed963694-e847-4b2a-85af-bc9cfc11d6f3/driver Which if successful should print:: - .../vmbus-ed963694-e847-4b2a-85af-bc9cfc11d6f3/driver -> ../../../bus/vmbus/drivers/uio_hv_generic + .../ed963694-e847-4b2a-85af-bc9cfc11d6f3/driver -> ../../../bus/vmbus/drivers/uio_hv_generic Things to know about uio_hv_generic -----------------------------------