[PATCH v2 1/6] Add ancillary bus support

[Ranjani Sridharan]

On Tue, 2020-10-06 at 20:26 +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 05:09:09PM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:
> > > 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
> 
> It sounds good, just can we avoid "_" in the name and call it subdev?
> 
> > (b) subfunction_bus

While we're still discussing names, may I also suggest simply "software
bus" instead?

Thanks,Ranjani