On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 03:50:46PM -0700, Dave Ertman wrote: > 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. > > The bus supports probe/remove shutdown and suspend/resume callbacks. > Each ancillary_device has a unique string based id; driver binds to > an ancillary_device based on this id through the bus. > > Co-developed-by: Kiran Patil <kiran.patil@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Kiran Patil <kiran.patil@xxxxxxxxx> > Co-developed-by: Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Co-developed-by: Fred Oh <fred.oh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Fred Oh <fred.oh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@xxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Parav Pandit <parav@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Dave Ertman <david.m.ertman@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/driver-api/ancillary_bus.rst | 230 +++++++++++++++++++++ > Documentation/driver-api/index.rst | 1 + > drivers/bus/Kconfig | 3 + > drivers/bus/Makefile | 3 + > drivers/bus/ancillary.c | 191 +++++++++++++++++ > include/linux/ancillary_bus.h | 58 ++++++ > include/linux/mod_devicetable.h | 8 + > scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.c | 3 + > scripts/mod/file2alias.c | 8 + > 9 files changed, 505 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 Documentation/driver-api/ancillary_bus.rst > create mode 100644 drivers/bus/ancillary.c > create mode 100644 include/linux/ancillary_bus.h I think you need to send this patch to a lot more mailing lists, netdev, rdma and linux-kernel at least The Intel IDXD team also needs this Jason
