[PATCH 0/6] Ancillary bus implementation and SOF multi-client support

[Ertman, David M]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2020 10:10 AM
> To: Ertman, David M <david.m.ertman at intel.com>
> Cc: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart at linux.intel.com>; alsa-
> devel at alsa-project.org; tiwai at suse.de; gregkh at linuxfoundation.org;
> Sridharan, Ranjani <ranjani.sridharan at intel.com>; parav at nvidia.com;
> jgg at 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