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

[Kay Sievers]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 09:00:31PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> 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 :-)

Sure, that's fine, if there is the possibility of the binding behavior
to ever become more than a boolean.

Thanks,
Kay