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

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Message-ID: <87pmgyx48j.wl-maz@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 17 Aug 2022 16:46:20 +0100
From:   Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
To:     Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta@....com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/6] bus/cdx: add the cdx bus driver

On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 16:32:45 +0100,
Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.

+1.

This should follow something like PCI, which has semi-sane semantics.

Thanks,

	M.

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