netdev - Re: [PATCH V2 3/5] vDPA: introduce vDPA bus

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Date:   Thu, 13 Feb 2020 11:34:10 +0800
From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 3/5] vDPA: introduce vDPA bus

On 2020/2/12 下午8:51, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 03:55:31PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>>> The ida_simple_remove should probably be part of the class release
>>> function to make everything work right
>> It looks to me bus instead of class is the correct abstraction here since
>> the devices share a set of programming interface but not the semantics.
> device_release() doesn't call the bus release?

What it did is:

         if (dev->release)
                 dev->release(dev);
         else if (dev->type && dev->type->release)
                 dev->type->release(dev);
         else if (dev->class && dev->class->dev_release)
                 dev->class->dev_release(dev);
         else
                 WARN(1, KERN_ERR "Device '%s' does not have a release() 
function, it is broken and must be fixed. See Documentation/kobject.txt.\n",
                         dev_name(dev));

So it looks not.

>   You have dev, type or
> class to choose from. Type is rarely used and doesn't seem to be used
> by vdpa, so class seems the right choice
>
> Jason

Yes, but my understanding is class and bus are mutually exclusive. So we 
can't add a class to a device which is already attached on a bus.

Thanks