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b=0YmRzaEwDk60OeBAZemGG0lHKcBt/TDRMOeymj0dVaYr1u1Pv4BPjlkrBKLhMjfDm vxpyhRvnLGoBIBG4iprzsUPAoCSF52TsNVJ/Oq+mZG9LkyYVv21QEMUchasaxFSvpy R2cjN4J2qumXijg7yszKmCXmcTbFuEdlH5xozb1Y= Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 22:20:36 +0300 From: Leon Romanovsky To: "Saleem, Shiraz" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] Add ancillary bus support Message-ID: <20201006192036.GQ1874917@unreal> References: <20201005182446.977325-1-david.m.ertman@intel.com> <20201005182446.977325-2-david.m.ertman@intel.com> <20201006071821.GI1874917@unreal> <20201006170241.GM1874917@unreal> <20201006172650.GO1874917@unreal> <3ff1445d86564ef3aae28d1d1a9a19ea@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3ff1445d86564ef3aae28d1d1a9a19ea@intel.com> Cc: "alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" , "kuba@kernel.org" , "parav@mellanox.com" , "tiwai@suse.de" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , Pierre-Louis Bossart , "ranjani.sridharan@linux.intel.com" , "fred.oh@linux.intel.com" , "linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" , "dledford@redhat.com" , "broonie@kernel.org" , Parav Pandit , Jason Gunthorpe , "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" , "Ertman, David M" , "Williams, Dan J" , "davem@davemloft.net" , "Patil, Kiran" X-BeenThere: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: "Alsa-devel mailing list for ALSA developers - http://www.alsa-project.org" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: "Alsa-devel" On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 05:41:00PM +0000, Saleem, Shiraz wrote: > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] Add ancillary bus support > > > > On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 05:09:09PM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote: > > > > > > > From: Leon Romanovsky > > > > Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 10:33 PM > > > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 10:18:07AM -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote: > > > > > Thanks for the review Leon. > > > > > > > > > > > > Add support for the Ancillary Bus, ancillary_device and ancillary_driver. > > > > > > > It enables drivers to create an ancillary_device and bind an > > > > > > > ancillary_driver to it. > > > > > > > > > > > > I was under impression that this name is going to be changed. > > > > > > > > > > It's part of the opens stated in the cover letter. > > > > > > > > ok, so what are the variants? > > > > system bus (sysbus), sbsystem bus (subbus), crossbus ? > > > Since the intended use of this bus is to > > > (a) create sub devices that represent 'functional separation' and > > > (b) second use case for subfunctions from a pci device, > > > > > > I proposed below names in v1 of this patchset. > > > > > > (a) subdev_bus > > > > It sounds good, just can we avoid "_" in the name and call it subdev? > > > > What is wrong with naming the bus 'ancillary bus'? I feel it's a fitting name. > An ancillary software bus for ancillary devices carved off a parent device registered on a primary bus. Greg summarized it very well, every internal conversation about this patch with my colleagues (non-english speakers) starts with the question: "What does ancillary mean?" https://lore.kernel.org/alsa-devel/20201001071403.GC31191@kroah.com/ "For non-native english speakers this is going to be rough, given that I as a native english speaker had to go look up the word in a dictionary to fully understand what you are trying to do with that name." Thanks > > >