RE: [PATCH v3 01/10] Add auxiliary bus support

Ertman, David M
2020-11-13T16:08:14Z

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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/10] Add auxiliary bus support
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 05:33:29PM -0700, Dave Ertman wrote:
> > Add support for the Auxiliary Bus, auxiliary_device and auxiliary_driver.
> > It enables drivers to create an auxiliary_device and bind an
> > auxiliary_driver to it.
> >
> > The bus supports probe/remove shutdown and suspend/resume callbacks.
> > Each auxiliary_device has a unique string based id; driver binds to
> > an auxiliary_device based on this id through the bus.
> >
> > Co-developed-by: Kiran Patil <kiran.patil@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Kiran Patil <kiran.patil@intel.com>
> > Co-developed-by: Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@linux.intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@linux.intel.com>
> > Co-developed-by: Fred Oh <fred.oh@linux.intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Fred Oh <fred.oh@linux.intel.com>
> > Co-developed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@intel.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Ertman <david.m.ertman@intel.com>
> > ---
>
> Is this really the "latest" version of this patch submission?
>
> I see a number of comments on it already, have you sent out a newer one,
> or is this the same one that the mlx5 driver conversion was done on top
> of?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

V3 is the latest sent so far. There was a suggestion that v3 might be merged and
the documentation changes could be in a follow up patch. I have those changes done
and ready though, so no reason not to merge them in and do a resend.

Please expect v4 in just a little while.

Thanks,
-DaveE