[PATCH v3 0/7] driver core: auxiliary bus: add device creation helper

Jerome Brunet
2025-02-11T17:30:06Z

The suggestion for this change was initially discussed here: [1]

This patchset adds and use a helper to create a simple auxiliary device.
The goal is to remove boilerplate code that tends to get repeated for
simple cases.

Only the last change was tested on actual HW. The other usage of the helper
have only been compile tested with x64_64 allmodconfig. There are many other
simple cases of auxiliary device creation but those tend to use the
'container_of' trick to allocate the auxiliary device. It is possible to
convert these drivers to use the provided helper but the conversion is
slightly more complex.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-clk/df0a53ee859e450d84e81547099f5f36.sboyd@kernel.org

Changes in v3:
- Implement Ira's suggestion to use KBUILD_MODNAME by default, same as
auxiliary_driver_register()
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250206-aux-device-create-helper-v2-0-fa6a0f326527@baylibre.com

Changes in v2:
- Add usage examples, as requested.
- Add 'id' as function parameter: Adding the example usage showed that
handling IDA allocation was not appropriate and making the usage more
complex for simple use case.
- Also add 'modname' as parameter: Most driver have been using
KBUILD_MODNAME and this actually rarely align with the driver name.
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241210-aux-device-create-helper-v1-1-5887f4d89308@baylibre.com

Signed-off-by: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@baylibre.com>
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Jerome Brunet (7):
driver core: auxiliary bus: add device creation helpers
reset: mpfs: use the auxiliary device creation helper
drm/bridge: ti-sn65dsi86: use the auxiliary device creation helper
platform: arm64: lenovo-yoga-c630: use the auxiliary device creation helper
clk: eyeq: use the auxiliary device creation helper
clk: clk-imx8mp-audiomix: use the auxiliary device creation helper
clk: amlogic: axg-audio: use the auxiliary reset driver - take 2

drivers/base/auxiliary.c | 88 +++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/clk/clk-eyeq.c | 57 ++++-----------
drivers/clk/imx/clk-imx8mp-audiomix.c | 56 ++-------------
drivers/clk/meson/Kconfig | 2 +-
drivers/clk/meson/axg-audio.c | 114 ++++--------------------------
drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-sn65dsi86.c | 84 ++++++----------------
drivers/platform/arm64/lenovo-yoga-c630.c | 42 ++---------
drivers/reset/reset-mpfs.c | 52 +-------------
include/linux/auxiliary_bus.h | 10 +++
9 files changed, 157 insertions(+), 348 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 2014c95afecee3e76ca4a56956a936e23283f05b
change-id: 20241210-aux-device-create-helper-93141524e523

Best regards,
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Jerome