linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/9] drivers: Transition to the faux device interface

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Message-ID: <2025031705-scouting-scolding-8ff7@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:01:55 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@...nel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
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	Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] drivers: Transition to the faux device interface

On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 10:13:12AM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> Recently when debugging why one of the scmi platform device was not
> showing up under /sys/devices/platform/firmware:scmi instead was
> appearing directly under /sys/devices/platform, I noticed the new
> faux interface /sys/devices/faux.
> 
> Looking through the discussion and the background, I got excited and
> took the opportunity to clear all the platform devices under
> /sys/devices/platform on the Arm Juno/FVP platforms that are really
> faux devices. Only the platform devices created for the device nodes
> from the DT remain under /sys/devices/platform after these changes.
> 
> All the patches are independent of each other.

That's great, but you need to send these all independently to each
subsystem as needed.  Having it all in one series doesn't work for any
of the maintainers of any of the subsystems.

And I'm glad to see this work happening, thanks for doing that!

greg k-h