01/03/2023 20:59, Tomasz Duszynski: > Platform bus is a software bus under Linux that manages devices which > generally do not have built-in discovery mechanisms. Linux normally > learns about platform devices directly from device-tree during > boot-up phase. > > Up to this point, whenever some userspace app needed control over > platform device or a range of thereof some sort of driver being > a mixture of vdev/rawdev was required. > > In order to simplify this task, provide an auto-probe > experience and separate bus logic from the driver itself, > add platform bus support. > > Currently devices backed up by vfio-platform kernel driver > are supported. > > Signed-off-by: Tomasz Duszynski <tduszyn...@marvell.com>
Applied with minor doc improvements, thanks.
