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=-4.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,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 23043C4727D for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2020 17:26:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF98320782 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2020 17:26:56 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1602005216; bh=F0HQbTaTERZyH2PFQJHENFBsyRZFyRlCovByBrhvGhg=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=drhjF+4d0RCCYnYoOcckCD/wlzVzdcBhxwPPky+z5yyp7MCKkyVNXW31IypeB6+I2 bSrXwDCx5eamq9+A3rsjYDOyb1Dau5/AjGiVqzigMUwCAC5NDH29jLID+tpToStlt2 7q1VVVCuAv/y/J3mJ4rT4lm9gQ5Urh677FbAAcYk= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726391AbgJFR0z (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2020 13:26:55 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:44394 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725902AbgJFR0z (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2020 13:26:55 -0400 Received: from localhost (unknown [213.57.247.131]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 30CFD20674; Tue, 6 Oct 2020 17:26:53 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1602005214; bh=F0HQbTaTERZyH2PFQJHENFBsyRZFyRlCovByBrhvGhg=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=1tgYY+e97jByt5c9GwVMffHxWfneSxaysC3hOM/TsjT7KlfG00ssd6BFZUDSSEGZw r5Z5SW6jnduPzBDwAuoPRLRqlLCmEGWPJ9gQkJXWbR2ZhITmpCN6e5D2llB1CVllRN q46uU5CoZBAy1NVHUT7r3KSmiz2LO+uCHBVzLuWw= Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 20:26:50 +0300 From: Leon Romanovsky To: Parav Pandit Cc: Pierre-Louis Bossart , Dave Ertman , "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" , "dan.j.williams@intel.com" , "shiraz.saleem@intel.com" , "davem@davemloft.net" , "kiran.patil@intel.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] Add ancillary bus support Message-ID: <20201006172650.GO1874917@unreal> References: <20201005182446.977325-1-david.m.ertman@intel.com> <20201005182446.977325-2-david.m.ertman@intel.com> <20201006071821.GI1874917@unreal> <20201006170241.GM1874917@unreal> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org 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? > (b) subfunction_bus