> 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 (b) subfunction_bus
