[EXT] Re: [PATCH v4] bus: add platform bus

[Tomasz Duszynski]

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>From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
>Sent: Friday, March 10, 2023 5:45 PM
>To: Tomasz Duszynski <tduszynski at marvell.com>
>Cc: dev at dpdk.org; chenbo.xia at intel.com; Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj at marvell.com>;
>stephen at networkplumber.org; david.marchand at redhat.com
>Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v4] bus: add platform bus
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>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 at marvell.com>
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>Applied with minor doc improvements, thanks.
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Thanks!