On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 04:24:14PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> My idea is to represent a supplier-consumer dependency between devices (or
> more precisely between device+driver combos) as a "link" object containing
> pointers to the devices in question, a list node for each of them and some
> additional information related to the management of those objects, ie.
> something like:
>
> struct device_link {
> struct device *supplier;
> struct list_head supplier_node;
> struct device *consumer;
> struct list_head consumer_node;
> <flags, status etc>
> };
>
> In general, there will be two lists of those things per device, one list
> of links to consumers and one list of links to suppliers.
>
> In that picture, links will be created by calling, say:
>
> int device_add_link(struct device *me, struct device *my_supplier, unsigned
> int flags);
At first glance, I like this, nice. Now to see how well it can be
implemented :)
Again, nice job.
greg k-h
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