Hello Thierry,

On Wed, Sep 30, 2026 at 03:14:35PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2026 at 01:55:59PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2026 at 12:06:14PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > > I have a prototype patch that I'm going to send out shortly (after
> > > testing that it actually works). The problem ended up being that the
> > > driver_override is a device attribute, so there's no good way to drop it
> > > based on a driver flag.
> > 
> > Did you see that I sent such a patch already.
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/0f7446324f6a0c8f0153d6532d92a6eeecd6a308.1790612298.git.u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com/ .
> > You were on Cc:, I thought this to be enough to make you aware and
> > didn't mention it in this thread here.
> > 
> > I hope to not have provoked much duplicate work.
> 
> Well, from the looks of it you ended up hijacking my earlier attempt
> while it was being discussed. It's customary to ask before you do so,
> specifically in order to avoid duplication of work. Or at least answer
> on the original thread that you plan to take this in a different
> direction so that people know what's going on.

Yeah, sorry about that. On that other thread where we were discussing
taints in context of driver_overrides the topics overlapped, so my idea
was to get all the suggestions into a single place. It seems I failed to
make you notice that in time. Mea culpa.
 
> Anyway, I was still waiting for any conclusions on the original thread
> and didn't spend any more time revisiting my original series, so no harm
> done.

😅

Best regards
Uwe