On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 05:09:09PM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote: > > > From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx> > > 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
