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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 10:47:11 +0100
From: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 3/9] PCI/portdrv: create platform devices for child OF nodes
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On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 10:43:04AM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> Lukas, Terry: am I getting this right - is the port driver supposed to
> go away at some point?

Yes, that's the plan.

> Because I'm not sure I understand what the
> problem is here. To me it seems that when we create a real device for
> the PCIe port, then it's only normal to populate its child devices
> from the port driver.

portdrv is not creating a real device for the PCIe port.
It *binds* to that device.  The device is created much earlier.

NAK for adding this to portdrv.

Thanks,

Lukas