Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/10] Add auxiliary bus support

From: Leon Romanovsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 07:30:00 +0200

On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 08:18:50AM -0800, Dave Ertman wrote:
> 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 <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Kiran Patil <[email-masked]>
> Co-developed-by: Ranjani Sridharan <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Ranjani Sridharan <[email-masked]>
> Co-developed-by: Fred Oh <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Fred Oh <[email-masked]>
> Co-developed-by: Leon Romanovsky <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <[email-masked]>
> Reviewed-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <[email-masked]>
> Reviewed-by: Shiraz Saleem <[email-masked]>
> Reviewed-by: Parav Pandit <[email-masked]>
> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Ertman <[email-masked]>
> ---

Greg,

This horse was beaten to death, can we please progress with this patch?
Create special topic branch or ack so I'll prepare this branch.

We are in -rc4 now and we (Mellanox) can't hold our submissions anymore.
My mlx5_core probe patches [1] were too intrusive and they are ready to
be merged, Parav's patches got positive review as well [2] and will be
taken next.

We delayed and have in our internal queues the patches for VDPA, eswitch
and followup for mlx5_core probe rework, but trapped due to this AUX bus
patch.

Thanks

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/[email-masked]/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/[email-masked]/T/#md25b9a2feb4c60d3fef5d57da41db559af1062d8