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1What:		/sys/bus/amba/devices/.../driver_override
2Date:		September 2014
3Contact:	Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com>
4Description:
5		This file allows the driver for a device to be specified which
6		will override standard OF, ACPI, ID table, and name matching.
7		When specified, only a driver with a name matching the value
8		written to driver_override will have an opportunity to bind to
9		the device. The override is specified by writing a string to the
10		driver_override file (echo vfio-amba > driver_override)	and may
11		be cleared with an empty string (echo > driver_override).
12		This returns the device to standard matching rules binding.
13		Writing to driver_override does not automatically unbind the
14		device from its current driver or make any attempt to
15		automatically load the specified driver. If no driver with a
16		matching name is currently loaded in the kernel, the device will
17		not bind to any driver. This also allows devices to opt-out of
18		driver binding using a driver_override name such as "none".
19		Only a single driver may be specified in the override, there is
20		no support for parsing delimiters.
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