Re: [net-next v2 1/1] virtual-bus: Implementation of Virtual Bus

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 02:33:55PM -0800, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> From: Dave Ertman <david.m.ertman@intel.com>
> 
> This is the initial implementation of the Virtual Bus,
> virtbus_device and virtbus_driver.  The virtual bus is
> a software based bus intended to support lightweight
> devices and drivers and provide matching between them
> and probing of the registered drivers.
> 
> The primary purpose of the virual bus is to provide
> matching services and to pass the data pointer
> contained in the virtbus_device to the virtbus_driver
> during its probe call.  This will allow two separate
> kernel objects to match up and start communication.
> 
> The bus will support probe/remove shutdown and
> suspend/resume callbacks.
> 
> Kconfig and Makefile alterations are included
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Ertman <david.m.ertman@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kiran Patil <kiran.patil@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
> ---
> v2: Cleaned up the virtual bus interface based on feedback from Greg KH
>     and provided a test driver and test virtual bus device as an example
>     of how to implement the virtual bus.

There is not a real user of this here, many of your exported functions
are not used at all, right?  I want to see this in "real use" to
actually determine how it works, and that's the only way you will know
if it solves your problem or not.

thanks,

greg k-h