linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] driver core: add a faux bus for use when a simple device/bus is needed

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Message-ID: <fd6250102ea9d869448e7a40a60a02f8b167d4ac.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:10:36 -0500
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
 Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>
Cc: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>, Andy Shevchenko	
 <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, 
 Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>, Liam Girdwood
 <lgirdwood@...il.com>, Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>,  Mark Brown
 <broonie@...nel.org>, Maíra Canal
 <mairacanal@...eup.net>, Robin Murphy	 <robin.murphy@....com>, Simona
 Vetter <simona.vetter@...ll.ch>, Zijun Hu	 <quic_zijuhu@...cinc.com>,
 linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, 	rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] driver core: add a faux bus for use when a
 simple device/bus is needed

OK I definitely should have waited to write the actual bindings before review
- sorry! There was one other small thing I ended up noticing:

On Tue, 2025-02-04 at 12:09 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> diff --git a/include/linux/device/faux.h b/include/linux/device/faux.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..2c8ae5bd7ae8
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/linux/device/faux.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
> +/*
> + * Copyright (c) 2025 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> + * Copyright (c) 2025 The Linux Foundation
> + *
> + * A "simple" faux bus that allows devices to be created and added
> + * automatically to it.  This is to be used whenever you need to create a
> + * device that is not associated with any "real" system resources, and do
> + * not want to have to deal with a bus/driver binding logic.  It is
> + * intended to be very simple, with only a create and a destroy function
> + * available.
> + */
> +#ifndef _FAUX_DEVICE_H_
> +#define _FAUX_DEVICE_H_
> +
> +#include <linux/device.h>
> +
> +struct faux_device {
> +	struct device dev;
> +};
> +#define to_faux_device(x) container_of_const((x), struct faux_device, dev)
> +
> +struct faux_driver_ops {
> +	int (*probe)(struct faux_device *faux_dev);
> +	void (*remove)(struct faux_device *faux_dev);
> +};
> +
> +struct faux_device *faux_device_create(const char *name, struct faux_driver_ops *faux_ops);
> +void faux_device_destroy(struct faux_device *faux_dev);

Should we add faux_get_drvdata()/faux_set_drvdata() since we've got a
probe/remove function? Doesn't really look like the platform driver equivalent
does mcuh, but I assume just having an inline function for this would make
things a little less confusing for users.

> +
> +#endif /* _FAUX_DEVICE_H_ */

-- 
Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat

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