[PATCH v2 1/6] Add ancillary bus support

Parav Pandit parav at nvidia.com
Tue Oct 6 19:09:09 CEST 2020


> From: Leon Romanovsky <leon at kernel.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 10:33 PM
> 
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 10:18:07AM -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> > Thanks for the review Leon.
> >
> > > > Add support for the Ancillary Bus, ancillary_device and ancillary_driver.
> > > > It enables drivers to create an ancillary_device and bind an
> > > > ancillary_driver to it.
> > >
> > > I was under impression that this name is going to be changed.
> >
> > It's part of the opens stated in the cover letter.
> 
> ok, so what are the variants?
> system bus (sysbus), sbsystem bus (subbus), crossbus ?
Since the intended use of this bus is to 
(a) create sub devices that represent 'functional separation' and 
(b) second use case for subfunctions from a pci device,

I proposed below names in v1 of this patchset.

(a) subdev_bus
(b) subfunction_bus


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