On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 04:54:24PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > From: Dave Ertman <david.m.ert...@intel.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.pa...@intel.com> > Co-developed-by: Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridha...@linux.intel.com> > Co-developed-by: Fred Oh <fred...@linux.intel.com> > Co-developed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leo...@nvidia.com> > Signed-off-by: Kiran Patil <kiran.pa...@intel.com> > Signed-off-by: Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridha...@linux.intel.com> > Signed-off-by: Fred Oh <fred...@linux.intel.com> > Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leo...@nvidia.com> > Signed-off-by: Dave Ertman <david.m.ert...@intel.com> > Reviewed-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.boss...@linux.intel.com> > Reviewed-by: Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.sal...@intel.com> > Reviewed-by: Parav Pandit <pa...@mellanox.com> > Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com> > Reviewed-by: Martin Habets <mhab...@solarflare.com> > Link: > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201113161859.1775473-2-david.m.ert...@intel.com > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.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
