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=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no 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 AC21CC47095 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2020 17:41:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68C15206CB for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2020 17:41:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726697AbgJFRlK convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2020 13:41:10 -0400 Received: from mga05.intel.com ([192.55.52.43]:60493 "EHLO mga05.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725925AbgJFRlK (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2020 13:41:10 -0400 IronPort-SDR: lVm3SrteD+Ih7tsytmtctAnE0SJ46pGjud7L7pZ54L84Ucny08UCbZnbQLApk1hAM6ZJMFnZOP rmknkzXZ/mrw== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6000,8403,9765"; a="249310042" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.77,343,1596524400"; d="scan'208";a="249310042" X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga007.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.58]) by fmsmga105.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 06 Oct 2020 10:41:04 -0700 IronPort-SDR: FWN0gfMLLMz51mLTKEALP7ftdCXctRtuya3sTcK/sMbwxMslvkRoiJls0MMwb4ao5HliGzGh8F siSaW4uhguKQ== X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.77,343,1596524400"; d="scan'208";a="354478830" Received: from fmsmsx601.amr.corp.intel.com ([10.18.126.81]) by orsmga007.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 06 Oct 2020 10:41:01 -0700 Received: from fmsmsx610.amr.corp.intel.com (10.18.126.90) by fmsmsx601.amr.corp.intel.com (10.18.126.81) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.1713.5; Tue, 6 Oct 2020 10:41:01 -0700 Received: from fmsmsx612.amr.corp.intel.com (10.18.126.92) by fmsmsx610.amr.corp.intel.com (10.18.126.90) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.1713.5; Tue, 6 Oct 2020 10:41:00 -0700 Received: from fmsmsx612.amr.corp.intel.com ([10.18.126.92]) by fmsmsx612.amr.corp.intel.com ([10.18.126.92]) with mapi id 15.01.1713.004; Tue, 6 Oct 2020 10:41:00 -0700 From: "Saleem, Shiraz" To: Leon Romanovsky , Parav Pandit CC: Pierre-Louis Bossart , "Ertman, David M" , "alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" , "parav@mellanox.com" , "tiwai@suse.de" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "ranjani.sridharan@linux.intel.com" , "fred.oh@linux.intel.com" , "linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" , "dledford@redhat.com" , "broonie@kernel.org" , Jason Gunthorpe , "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" , "kuba@kernel.org" , "Williams, Dan J" , "davem@davemloft.net" , "Patil, Kiran" Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 1/6] Add ancillary bus support Thread-Topic: [PATCH v2 1/6] Add ancillary bus support Thread-Index: AQHWm0x+bCEx5k0iU0+RSRzmm941iKmKoH2AgACGDICAAB03gIAAAc6AgAAE8QD//4wBYA== Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 17:41:00 +0000 Message-ID: <3ff1445d86564ef3aae28d1d1a9a19ea@intel.com> 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> In-Reply-To: <20201006172650.GO1874917@unreal> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: dlp-product: dlpe-windows dlp-reaction: no-action dlp-version: 11.5.1.3 x-originating-ip: [10.1.200.100] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org > 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.