Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] Add ancillary bus support

From: Leon Romanovsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 20:26:50 +0300

On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 05:09:09PM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:
>
> > From: Leon Romanovsky <[email-masked]>
> > 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