On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 01:35:05PM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 04:54:24PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > > From: Dave Ertman <david.m.ertman@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > Add support for the Auxiliary Bus, auxiliary_device and auxiliary_driver. > > It enables drivers to create an auxiliary_device and bind an > > auxiliary_driver to it. > > > > The bus supports probe/remove shutdown and suspend/resume callbacks. > > Each auxiliary_device has a unique string based id; driver binds to > > an auxiliary_device based on this id through the bus. > > > > Co-developed-by: Kiran Patil <kiran.patil@xxxxxxxxx> > > Co-developed-by: Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Co-developed-by: Fred Oh <fred.oh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Co-developed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Kiran Patil <kiran.patil@xxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Fred Oh <fred.oh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Dave Ertman <david.m.ertman@xxxxxxxxx> > > 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> > > Reviewed-by: Martin Habets <mhabets@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201113161859.1775473-2-david.m.ertman@xxxxxxxxx > > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > This patch is "To:" the maintainers that have a pending backlog of > > driver updates dependent on this facility, and "Cc:" Greg. Greg, I > > understand you have asked for more time to fully review this and apply > > it to driver-core.git, likely for v5.12, but please consider Acking it > > for v5.11 instead. It looks good to me and several other stakeholders. > > Namely, stakeholders that have pressure building up behind this facility > > in particular Mellanox RDMA, but also SOF, Intel Ethernet, and later on > > Compute Express Link. > > > > I will take the blame for the 2 months of silence that made this awkward > > to take through driver-core.git, but at the same time I do not want to > > see that communication mistake inconvenience other parties that > > reasonably thought this was shaping up to land in v5.11. > > > > I am willing to host this version at: > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/linux tags/auxiliary-bus-for-5.11 > > > > ...for all the independent drivers to have a common commit baseline. It > > is not there yet pending Greg's Ack. > > Here is now a signed tag for everyone else to pull from and build on top > of, for 5.11-rc1, that includes this patch, and the 3 others I sent in > this series. > > Please let me know if anyone has any problems with this tag. I'll keep > it around until 5.11-rc1 is released, after which it doesn't make any > sense to be there. Thanks, pulled to mlx5-next Jason, Jakob, Can you please pull that mlx5-next branch to your trees? git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mellanox/linux.git Thanks
