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charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 07 Oct 2020 17:54:46 +0200 Cc: "alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" , "kuba@kernel.org" , "parav@mellanox.com" , "tiwai@suse.de" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , Pierre-Louis Bossart , "ranjani.sridharan@linux.intel.com" , "fred.oh@linux.intel.com" , "linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" , "dledford@redhat.com" , "broonie@kernel.org" , Jason Gunthorpe , "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" , "Ertman, David M" , "Williams, Dan J" , "davem@davemloft.net" , "Patil, Kiran" X-BeenThere: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: "Alsa-devel mailing list for ALSA developers - http://www.alsa-project.org" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: "Alsa-devel" > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] Add ancillary bus support >=20 > On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 05:09:09PM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote: > > > > > From: Leon Romanovsky > > > 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 ancilla= ry_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 >=20 > It sounds good, just can we avoid "_" in the name and call it subdev? >=20 What is wrong with naming the bus 'ancillary bus'? I feel it's a fitting na= me. An ancillary software bus for ancillary devices carved off a parent device = registered on a primary bus.