linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/8] driver core: add a faux bus for use when a simple device/bus is needed

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Message-ID: <53d57b821c484c3e229686b4643fbf9486e1e150.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 15:07:59 -0500
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>, 
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>, 
 Danilo Krummrich	 <dakr@...nel.org>, 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 v3 1/8] driver core: add a faux bus for use when a
 simple device/bus is needed

On Thu, 2025-02-06 at 19:08 +0100, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > +
> > +	device_initialize(dev);
> > +	dev->release = faux_device_release;
> > +	dev->parent = &faux_bus_root;
> 
> I guess nobody will want to hang these off a different parent.

Oh - this is a good point that slipped my mind, how would we want to handle
this case? The reason I ask is since we have things like
drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_aux_dev.c which currently use the virtual
device API but iirc do actually assign the DRM device owning the aux device as
the parent.

> 
> > +	dev->bus = &faux_bus_type;
> > +	dev->groups = groups;
> > +	dev_set_name(dev, "%s", name);

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

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