linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] driver core: auxiliary bus: Introduce auxiliary device resource management

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Message-ID: <aCS8LThO37Vt26im@black.fi.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 18:52:13 +0300
From: Raag Jadav <raag.jadav@...el.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: david.m.ertman@...el.com, ira.weiny@...el.com, lee@...nel.org,
	andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com, mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com,
	heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] driver core: auxiliary bus: Introduce auxiliary
 device resource management

On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 02:35:01PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 05:54:31PM +0530, Raag Jadav wrote:
> > With more and more drivers adopting to auxiliary bus infrastructure comes
> > the need for managing resources at auxiliary device level. This is useful
> > for cases where parent device shares variable number and type of resources
> > with auxiliary child device but doesn't require any active involvement in
> > managing them.
> > 
> > This reduces potential duplication of resource APIs that may be required by
> > parent device driver. With this in place parent driver will be responsible
> > for filling up respective resources and its count in auxiliary device
> > structure before registering it, so that the leaf drivers can utilize in
> > their probe function. Lifecycle of these resources will be as long as the
> > auxiliary device exists.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Raag Jadav <raag.jadav@...el.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/base/auxiliary.c      | 145 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  include/linux/auxiliary_bus.h |  18 +++++
> >  2 files changed, 163 insertions(+)
> 
> Sorry, but again, you are not following the required rules for Intel
> kernel submissions for this subsystem.  Please work with the Intel
> kernel team to fix this up before you resend.

Apologies again if I have broken any rules here. Since this is following
the recommendations[1][2] of community maintainers, my understanding is
that this needed their attention.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/2025032514-ipad-schilling-9928@gregkh
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250501125028.GM1567507@google.com

Thanks for guidance, let me fix this.

Raag