| What: /sys/bus/platform/devices/.../driver_override | |
| Date: April 2014 | |
| Contact: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com> | |
| Description: | |
| This file allows the driver for a device to be specified which | |
| will override standard OF, ACPI, ID table, and name matching. | |
| When specified, only a driver with a name matching the value | |
| written to driver_override will have an opportunity to bind | |
| to the device. The override is specified by writing a string | |
| to the driver_override file (echo vfio-platform > \ | |
| driver_override) and may be cleared with an empty string | |
| (echo > driver_override). This returns the device to standard | |
| matching rules binding. Writing to driver_override does not | |
| automatically unbind the device from its current driver or make | |
| any attempt to automatically load the specified driver. If no | |
| driver with a matching name is currently loaded in the kernel, | |
| the device will not bind to any driver. This also allows | |
| devices to opt-out of driver binding using a driver_override | |
| name such as "none". Only a single driver may be specified in | |
| the override, there is no support for parsing delimiters. |