Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/6] bus/cdx: add the cdx bus driver

From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/6] bus/cdx: add the cdx bus driver
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 15:29:35 +0200	[thread overview]
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On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 01:21:47PM +0000, Gupta, Nipun wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2022 9:03 PM
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> > Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/6] bus/cdx: add the cdx bus driver
> > 
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> > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 08:35:38PM +0530, Nipun Gupta wrote:
> > > CDX bus driver manages the scanning and populating FPGA
> > > based devices present on the CDX bus.
> > >
> > > The bus driver sets up the basic infrastructure and fetches
> > > the device related information from the firmware. These
> > > devices are registered as platform devices.
> > 
> > Ick, why?  These aren't platform devices, they are CDX devices.  Make
> > them real devices here, don't abuse the platform device interface for
> > things that are not actually on the platform bus.
> 
> CDX is a virtual bus (FW based) which discovers FPGA based platform
> devices based on communication with FW.

virtual busses are fine to have as a real bus in the kernel, no problem
there.

> These devices are essentially platform devices as these are memory mapped
> on system bus, but having a property that they are dynamically discovered
> via FW and are rescannable.

If they are dynamically discoverable and rescannable, then great, it's a
bus in the kernel and NOT a platform device.

> I think your point is correct in the sense that CDX bus is not an actual bus,
> but a FW based mechanism to discover FPGA based platform devices.
> 
> Can you kindly suggest us if we should have the CDX platform device scanning
> code as a CDX bus in "drivers/bus/" folder OR have it in "drivers/fpga/" or
> "drivers/platform/" or which other suitable location?

drivers/cdx/ ?

thanks,

greg k-h