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Message-ID: <CAGngYiX3QP25MLupsc-=gfb6CAh5wK49eGs2xqHh_5LxrKtaAA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:43:49 -0400
From:   Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@...il.com>
To:     "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <lkml@...ux.net>
Cc:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>, mark.rutland@....com,
        Andreas Färber <afaerber@...e.de>,
        treding@...dia.com, David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>,
        noralf@...nnes.org, johan@...nel.org,
        Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>, michal.vokac@...ft.com,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
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        geert+renesas@...der.be, robin.murphy@....com,
        Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
        sebastien.bourdelin@...oirfairelinux.com, icenowy@...c.io,
        Stuart Yoder <stuyoder@...il.com>,
        "J. Kiszka" <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>, maxime.ripard@...tlin.com,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 2/7] anybus-s: support HMS Anybus-S bus

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 1:10 PM Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
<lkml@...ux.net> wrote:
>
> Is it some proprietary backplane bus, where things like eg. fieldbus
> adapters are attached to ?
>
> I see some struct bus_type field declaration - is that going to be some
> subsystem, similar to those for other bus'es (eg. pci, usb, ...) ?
>

Correct on both points :)
The author of this proprietary standard (HMS) calls this a bus, but only
a single card can be connected to a slot. So it's not like pci or usb,
where you can connect multiple devices to a host.

> Maybe that deserves a bit more documentation :p
>

Sure, I can do that. What would be the best location for this?
The commit message? The Kconfig blurb? Comments in host.c?
Somewhere in Documentation/ ?

Sven

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