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=-13.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, 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 C1269C433FE for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2020 12:55:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7616122AB0 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2020 12:55:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2388159AbgLDMzl (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Dec 2020 07:55:41 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:56836 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2387724AbgLDMzk (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Dec 2020 07:55:40 -0500 Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 14:54:55 +0200 From: Leon Romanovsky To: Greg KH , jgg@nvidia.com, kuba@kernel.org Cc: Dan Williams , broonie@kernel.org, lgirdwood@gmail.com, davem@davemloft.net, Kiran Patil , Ranjani Sridharan , Fred Oh , 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: <20201204125455.GI16543@unreal> 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: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 01:35:05PM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > 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. > > Here is now a signed tag for everyone else to pull from and build on top > of, for 5.11-rc1, that includes this patch, and the 3 others I sent in > this series. > > Please let me know if anyone has any problems with this tag. I'll keep > it around until 5.11-rc1 is released, after which it doesn't make any > sense to be there. Thanks, pulled to mlx5-next Jason, Jakob, Can you please pull that mlx5-next branch to your trees? git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mellanox/linux.git Thanks