On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 07:16:41PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 10:17:56PM +0000, Saleem, Shiraz wrote: > > > Even with another core PCI driver, there still needs to be private > > communication channel between the aux rdma driver and this PCI > > driver to pass things like QoS updates. > > Data pushed from the core driver to its aux drivers should either be > done through new callbacks in a struct device_driver or by having a > notifier chain scheme from the core driver.
Right, and internal to driver/core device_lock will protect from parallel probe/remove and PCI flows. I would say that all this handmade register/unregister and peer_client dance will be gone if driver would use properly auxbus. Thanks > > Jason
