+/*
+ * Manually attach a device to a driver.
+ * Note: the driver must want to bind to the device,
+ * it is not possible to override the driver's id table.
+ */
+static ssize_t driver_bind(struct device_driver *drv,
+ const char *buf, size_t count)
+{
+ struct bus_type *bus = get_bus(drv->bus);
+ struct device *dev;
+ int err = -ENODEV;
+
+ dev = bus_find_device(bus, NULL, (void *)buf, driver_helper);
+ if ((dev) &&
+ (dev->driver == NULL)) {
+ down(&dev->sem);
+ err = driver_probe_device(drv, dev);
+ up(&dev->sem);
+ put_device(dev);
+ }
+ return err;
+}
+static DRIVER_ATTR(bind, S_IWUSR, NULL, driver_bind);
+