> -----Original Message----- > From: Greg KH [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, September 12, 2016 9:13 AM > To: Vadim Pasternak <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected]; platform-driver- > [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [patch v1] x86/platform/mellanox: introduce support for Mellanox > systems platform > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 06:29:58AM +0000, [email protected] wrote: > > From: Vadim Pasternak <[email protected]> > > > > Enable system support for the Mellanox Technologies platform, which > > provides support for the next Mellanox basic systems: "msx6710", > > "msx6720", "msb7700", "msn2700", "msx1410", "msn2410", "msb7800", > > "msn2740", "msn2100" and also various number of derivative systems > > from the above basic types. > > What does "system support" mean? > > Why can't this just be a "normal" PCI driver, as you are just accessing a PCI > device and doing something with it, seems odd to claim it is a "platform" > driver. >
This driver also activates probes to create i2c platform driver and muxes. For ARM and PPC based systems I can activate such stuff through dts. To be honest I don't know what is the right way to do such things for x86 systems. If I will move PCI related stuff to separate driver, could you suggest some right location for that? For example, could I have the code like in f.e. in arch/x86/platform/ts5500/ts5500.c as a platform initialization code? Thanks, Vadim. > thanks, > > greg k-h
