Re: [PATCH 0/9] drivers: Transition to the faux device interface

[Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 02:01:55PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 10:13:12AM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> > Recently when debugging why one of the scmi platform device was not
> > showing up under /sys/devices/platform/firmware:scmi instead was
> > appearing directly under /sys/devices/platform, I noticed the new
> > faux interface /sys/devices/faux.
> > 
> > Looking through the discussion and the background, I got excited and
> > took the opportunity to clear all the platform devices under
> > /sys/devices/platform on the Arm Juno/FVP platforms that are really
> > faux devices. Only the platform devices created for the device nodes
> > from the DT remain under /sys/devices/platform after these changes.
> > 
> > All the patches are independent of each other.
> 
> That's great, but you need to send these all independently to each
> subsystem as needed.  Having it all in one series doesn't work for any
> of the maintainers of any of the subsystems.
> 

Sure I can do that. I initially had idea of creating a macro that made
all of them depend on the macro but later dropped as I wanted to check
if that is good or a bad idea. I just asked you in the thread 2/9.

> And I'm glad to see this work happening, thanks for doing that!
> 

Thanks for adding faux interface!

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Regards,
Sudeep