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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Tomasz Duszynski <tduszynski@marvell.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, chenbo.xia@intel.com, jerinj@marvell.com,
	stephen@networkplumber.org, david.marchand@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] bus: add platform bus
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 17:44:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1792851.8hzESeGDPO@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230301195912.3835720-1-tduszynski@marvell.com>

01/03/2023 20:59, Tomasz Duszynski:
> Platform bus is a software bus under Linux that manages devices which
> generally do not have built-in discovery mechanisms. Linux normally
> learns about platform devices directly from device-tree during
> boot-up phase.
> 
> Up to this point, whenever some userspace app needed control over
> platform device or a range of thereof some sort of driver being
> a mixture of vdev/rawdev was required.
> 
> In order to simplify this task, provide an auto-probe
> experience and separate bus logic from the driver itself,
> add platform bus support.
> 
> Currently devices backed up by vfio-platform kernel driver
> are supported.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Duszynski <tduszynski@marvell.com>

Applied with minor doc improvements, thanks.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-03-10 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-25 10:38 [PATCH 0/2] " Tomasz Duszynski
2023-01-25 10:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] lib: add helper to read strings from sysfs files Tomasz Duszynski
2023-01-25 10:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] bus: add platform bus Tomasz Duszynski
2023-02-05 18:38 ` [PATCH v2] " Tomasz Duszynski
2023-02-06 14:28   ` David Marchand
2023-02-07 14:14     ` [EXT] " Tomasz Duszynski
2023-02-15 11:10   ` [PATCH v3] " Tomasz Duszynski
2023-02-20 10:51     ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-02-22 12:46       ` [EXT] " Tomasz Duszynski
2023-03-01 19:59     ` [PATCH v4] " Tomasz Duszynski
2023-03-09 12:42       ` Tomasz Duszynski
2023-03-10 16:44       ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2023-03-13  7:08         ` [EXT] " Tomasz Duszynski

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