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

Dmitry Torokhov dtor_core at ameritech.net
Sun Dec 11 12:20:04 EST 2005


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?

-- 
Dmitry



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