Re: [PATCH 2.6.10-rc1 0/4] driver-model: manual device attach

From: Martin Waitz (tali_at_admingilde.org)
Date: 11/04/04

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To: Tejun Heo <tj@home-tj.org>

    hoi :)

    On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 04:43:30PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
    > Two files named attach and detach are created under each device's
    > sysfs directory. Reading attach node shows the name of applicable
    > drivers. Writing a driver name attaches the device to the driver.
    > Also, per-device parameters can be specified when writing to an attach
    > node. Writing anything to the write-only detach node detaches the
    > driver from the currently associated driver.

    perhaps it'll be simpler with only the attach file and using a special
    magic value ("", "none", "detach", whatever) to manually detach a device
    from the driver.

    Is it possible (and worthwhile) to reattach a manually detached device
    to the default driver? Perhaps using a magic value "auto" for attach.
    Something like your dev.autoattach=2 rescan method, but for one
    device only. (What is the use case to rescan all busses, anyway?) 

    -- 
Martin Waitz

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