linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3 v6] drivers/bus: Freescale Management Complex bus driver patch series

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Message-ID: <54EF2EA9.8080107@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:33:13 +0100
From:	Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>
To:	Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@...escale.com>,
	"arnd@...db.de" <arnd@...db.de>
CC:	Jose Rivera <German.Rivera@...escale.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3 v6] drivers/bus: Freescale Management Complex bus
 driver patch series



On 27.01.15 15:35, Stuart Yoder wrote:
> Hi Arnd/Alex,
> 
> German has posted an example driver for the fsl-mc bus in his RFC
> "[RFC PATCH 1/1] drivers/bus: fsl-mc object allocator driver".
> 
> In addition I have made available the skeleton for a driver for
> one of the objects/devices (crypto) that will be discovered on
> the bus:
>     https://github.com/stuyoder/linux
>     branch: fsl-ms-bus
> 
> ...it is not functional yet, but shows how a driver registers with
> the bus, get's probed, performs initialization.

Ok, so if I grasp this correctly the idea is that we have a driver
attaching to an individual device on the fsl-mc bus. That driver then
goes and allocates / blocks more devices from that bus as it initializes.

Is that model always possible? Which device would a NIC bind to for
example? I merely want to make sure we're not running ourselves into a
bad corner ;).


Alex
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