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Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 16:06:24 +0100 From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> Cc: broonie@...nel.org, lgirdwood@...il.com, davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, jgg@...dia.com, Kiran Patil <kiran.patil@...el.com>, Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@...ux.intel.com>, Fred Oh <fred.oh@...ux.intel.com>, Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>, Dave Ertman <david.m.ertman@...el.com>, Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com>, Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@...el.com>, Parav Pandit <parav@...lanox.com>, Martin Habets <mhabets@...arflare.com>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [resend/standalone PATCH v4] Add auxiliary bus support On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 04:54:24PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > From: Dave Ertman <david.m.ertman@...el.com> > > Add support for the Auxiliary Bus, auxiliary_device and auxiliary_driver. > It enables drivers to create an auxiliary_device and bind an > auxiliary_driver to it. > > The bus supports probe/remove shutdown and suspend/resume callbacks. > Each auxiliary_device has a unique string based id; driver binds to > an auxiliary_device based on this id through the bus. > > Co-developed-by: Kiran Patil <kiran.patil@...el.com> > Co-developed-by: Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@...ux.intel.com> > Co-developed-by: Fred Oh <fred.oh@...ux.intel.com> > Co-developed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com> > Signed-off-by: Kiran Patil <kiran.patil@...el.com> > Signed-off-by: Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@...ux.intel.com> > Signed-off-by: Fred Oh <fred.oh@...ux.intel.com> > Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com> > Signed-off-by: Dave Ertman <david.m.ertman@...el.com> > Reviewed-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com> > Reviewed-by: Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@...el.com> > Reviewed-by: Parav Pandit <parav@...lanox.com> > Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> > Reviewed-by: Martin Habets <mhabets@...arflare.com> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201113161859.1775473-2-david.m.ertman@intel.com > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> > --- > This patch is "To:" the maintainers that have a pending backlog of > driver updates dependent on this facility, and "Cc:" Greg. Greg, I > understand you have asked for more time to fully review this and apply > it to driver-core.git, likely for v5.12, but please consider Acking it > for v5.11 instead. It looks good to me and several other stakeholders. > Namely, stakeholders that have pressure building up behind this facility > in particular Mellanox RDMA, but also SOF, Intel Ethernet, and later on > Compute Express Link. > > I will take the blame for the 2 months of silence that made this awkward > to take through driver-core.git, but at the same time I do not want to > see that communication mistake inconvenience other parties that > reasonably thought this was shaping up to land in v5.11. > > I am willing to host this version at: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/linux tags/auxiliary-bus-for-5.11 > > ...for all the independent drivers to have a common commit baseline. It > is not there yet pending Greg's Ack. I have been trying to carve out some time to review this. At my initial glance, I still have objections, so please, give me a few more days to get this done... thanks, greg k-h
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