From afdce75f1eaebcf358b7594ba7969aade105c3b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:09:05 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to bind drivers to devices from userspace This adds a single file, "bind", to the sysfs directory of every driver registered with the driver core. To bind a device to a driver, write the bus id of the device you wish to bind to that specific driver to the "bind" file (remember to not add a trailing \n). If that bus id matches a device on that bus, and it does not currently have a driver bound to it, the probe sequence will be initiated with that driver and device. Note, this requires that the driver itself be willing and able to accept that device (usually through a device id type table). This patch does not make it possible to override the driver's id table. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/base/base.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'drivers/base/base.h') diff --git a/drivers/base/base.h b/drivers/base/base.h index 645f6269292..783752b68a9 100644 --- a/drivers/base/base.h +++ b/drivers/base/base.h @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ extern int bus_add_driver(struct device_driver *); extern void bus_remove_driver(struct device_driver *); extern void driver_detach(struct device_driver * drv); +extern int driver_probe_device(struct device_driver *, struct device *); static inline struct class_device *to_class_dev(struct kobject *obj) { -- cgit v1.2.3