linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/6] bus/cdx: add the cdx bus driver

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Message-ID: <Yv0KHROjESUI59Pd@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 17 Aug 2022 17:32:45 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta@....com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/6] bus/cdx: add the cdx bus driver

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 08:35:38PM +0530, Nipun Gupta wrote:
> CDX bus driver manages the scanning and populating FPGA
> based devices present on the CDX bus.
> 
> The bus driver sets up the basic infrastructure and fetches
> the device related information from the firmware. These
> devices are registered as platform devices.

Ick, why?  These aren't platform devices, they are CDX devices.  Make
them real devices here, don't abuse the platform device interface for
things that are not actually on the platform bus.

> CDX bus is capable of scanning devices dynamically,
> supporting rescanning of dynamically added, removed or
> updated devices.

Wonderful, that's a real bus, so be a real bus please.

thanks,

greg k-h