Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] mfd: Add support for LAN966x PCI device

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 21:08:48 +0200

On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 06:44:38PM +0200, Herve Codina wrote:
> Hi Lee,
> 
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 16:29:52 +0100
> Lee Jones <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 27 Jun 2024, Herve Codina wrote:
> > 
> > > Add a PCI driver that handles the LAN966x PCI device using a device-tree
> > > overlay. This overlay is applied to the PCI device DT node and allows to
> > > describe components that are present in the device.
> > > 
> > > The memory from the device-tree is remapped to the BAR memory thanks to
> > > "ranges" properties computed at runtime by the PCI core during the PCI
> > > enumeration.
> > > 
> > > The PCI device itself acts as an interrupt controller and is used as the
> > > parent of the internal LAN966x interrupt controller to route the
> > > interrupts to the assigned PCI INTx interrupt.  
> > 
> > Not entirely sure why this is in MFD.
> 
> This PCI driver purpose is to instanciate many other drivers using a DT
> overlay. I think MFD is the right subsystem.

Please use the aux bus for that, that is what is was specifically
designed for, and what it is being used for today.

thanks,

greg k-h