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The virtual bus is a software based bus intended to supp= ort > lightweight devices and drivers and provide matching between them and When you wrote ' lightweight devices', you probably intent to say, 'multiple class of devices such as rdma, netdev etc for a single underlying= parent device'. 'struct class' has clear meaning in kernel with above two examples and more= . Though it's not limited to these two classes, an example is always better. = :-) If so, please word that say, that avoids the confusion and it will be align= ed to below primary purpose description. > probing of the registered drivers. >=20 > 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_driv= er > during its probe call. This will allow two separate kernel objects to ma= tch up > and start communication.