-----Original Message----- From: Mark Brown broonie@kernel.org Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2020 10:10 AM To: Ertman, David M david.m.ertman@intel.com Cc: Pierre-Louis Bossart pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com; alsa- devel@alsa-project.org; tiwai@suse.de; gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; Sridharan, Ranjani ranjani.sridharan@intel.com; parav@nvidia.com; jgg@nvidia.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Ancillary bus implementation and SOF multi-client support
On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 04:50:26PM +0000, Ertman, David M wrote:
are controlled by DT/ACPI. The same argument applies for not using
MFD
in this scenario as it relies on individual function devices being physical devices that are DT enumerated.
...
The MFD bus also uses parts of the platform bus in the background,
including
platform_data and the such. We submitted a version of the RDMA/LAN
solution
using MFD and it was NACK'd by GregKH.
That does not mean that it's a good idea to write documentation that says things that are not true. It would be better to just not say anything here rather than mislead people.
I have removed the line about MFD devices requiring DT enumeration.
-DaveE