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

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Message-ID: <2025051433-fade-flirt-d3e0@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 14:35:01 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Raag Jadav <raag.jadav@...el.com>
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 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(+)

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greg k-h