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On 18.04.19 19:34, Sven Van Asbroeck wrote:

> If you have a fieldbus device you want to add to mainline Linux, and> you wish to piggy-back onto the fieldbus_dev subsystem, then we can>
discuss fieldbus API changes/additions/improvements during the> patch
review stage.
With those cases, piggy-backing wouldn't make much sense, as their
semantics is pretty different.

My whole point here was just that it shouldn't be called "fieldbus",
but iec61158 instead.


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