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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 13/14] gunyah: rsc_mgr: Add auxiliary devices for
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To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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On 10/4/2022 11:21 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2022 at 04:49:27PM -0700, Elliot Berman wrote:
>> On 9/30/2022 5:19 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 12:56:32PM -0700, Elliot Berman wrote:
>>>> Gunyah resource manager exposes a concrete functionalities which
>>>> complicate a single resource manager driver.
>>>
>>> I am sorry, but I do not understand this sentance.  What is so
>>> complicated about individual devices being created?  Where are they
>>> created?  What bus?
>>
>> There's no complexity here with using individual devices, that's why I
>> wanted to create secondary (auxiliary devices).
>>
>> IOW -- "I have a platform device that does a lot of different things. Split
>> up the different functionalities of that device into sub devices using the
>> auxiliary bus."
> 
> Why not just have multiple platform devices?  You control them, don't
> make it more complex than it should be.
> 
> And why are these platform devices at all?
> 
> As you say:
> 
>> A key requirement for utilizing the auxiliary bus is that there is no
>> dependency on a physical bus, device, register accesses or regmap support.
>> These individual devices split from the core cannot live on the platform bus
>> as they are not physical devices that are controlled by DT/ACPI.
> 
> These are not in the DT.  So just make your own bus for them instead of
> using a platform device.  Don't abuse a platform device please.
> 

I'll avoid creating platform devices. Are there any concerns with 
creating auxiliary device under the platform device? There will only be 
2 auxiliary devices under this Resource Manager device: one for console, 
and one for a VM loader.

> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h