From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-15.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61AF0C4361B for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2020 15:06:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F9DF207B4 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2020 15:06:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730872AbgLCPF6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2020 10:05:58 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:55310 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725899AbgLCPF5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2020 10:05:57 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 16:06:24 +0100 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1607007916; bh=/J7gpUERaDM9moTEEEztSBOYPXPY+1XBfrGQKejOuvY=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=HX4owR3tVP+i3f7QYdDhUhab7Q8N1/aR087nZ+T3r/vCFu1loWGADTevPSNLXw54N V29cV6+JhrNjwNbTM0z2MLR2nibX9loLE3RFShRdD97WvmNT13YpezMkpCTdCQGxZ8 kZZQ2ISElcTQv4wS9gTDn+FvriQ+caA/hx+g5+7w= From: Greg KH To: Dan Williams Cc: broonie@kernel.org, lgirdwood@gmail.com, davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org, jgg@nvidia.com, Kiran Patil , Ranjani Sridharan , Fred Oh , Leon Romanovsky , Dave Ertman , Pierre-Louis Bossart , Shiraz Saleem , Parav Pandit , Martin Habets , linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [resend/standalone PATCH v4] Add auxiliary bus support Message-ID: References: <160695681289.505290.8978295443574440604.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <160695681289.505290.8978295443574440604.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 04:54:24PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > From: Dave Ertman > > 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 > Co-developed-by: Ranjani Sridharan > Co-developed-by: Fred Oh > Co-developed-by: Leon Romanovsky > Signed-off-by: Kiran Patil > Signed-off-by: Ranjani Sridharan > Signed-off-by: Fred Oh > Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky > Signed-off-by: Dave Ertman > Reviewed-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart > Reviewed-by: Shiraz Saleem > Reviewed-by: Parav Pandit > Reviewed-by: Dan Williams > Reviewed-by: Martin Habets > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201113161859.1775473-2-david.m.ertman@intel.com > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams > --- > This patch is "To:" the maintainers that have a pending backlog of > driver updates dependent on this facility, and "Cc:" Greg. Greg, I > understand you have asked for more time to fully review this and apply > it to driver-core.git, likely for v5.12, but please consider Acking it > for v5.11 instead. It looks good to me and several other stakeholders. > Namely, stakeholders that have pressure building up behind this facility > in particular Mellanox RDMA, but also SOF, Intel Ethernet, and later on > Compute Express Link. > > I will take the blame for the 2 months of silence that made this awkward > to take through driver-core.git, but at the same time I do not want to > see that communication mistake inconvenience other parties that > reasonably thought this was shaping up to land in v5.11. > > I am willing to host this version at: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/linux tags/auxiliary-bus-for-5.11 > > ...for all the independent drivers to have a common commit baseline. It > is not there yet pending Greg's Ack. I have been trying to carve out some time to review this. At my initial glance, I still have objections, so please, give me a few more days to get this done... thanks, greg k-h