platform/surface: aggregator: Add dedicated bus and device type
authorMaximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>
Mon, 21 Dec 2020 18:39:56 +0000 (19:39 +0100)
committerHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Wed, 6 Jan 2021 23:06:39 +0000 (00:06 +0100)
commiteb0e90a82098d4a48308abb87d2087578a83987f
tree01352b0c6f8426ff6c36743f31b05dd0eea79c87
parent02be44f6b5a9e4ff1215d337ac4d2a6fbafc7874
platform/surface: aggregator: Add dedicated bus and device type

The Surface Aggregator EC provides varying functionality, depending on
the Surface device. To manage this functionality, we use dedicated
client devices for each subsystem or virtual device of the EC. While
some of these clients are described as standard devices in ACPI and the
corresponding client drivers can be implemented as platform drivers in
the kernel (making use of the controller API already present), many
devices, especially on newer Surface models, cannot be found there.

To simplify management of these devices, we introduce a new bus and
client device type for the Surface Aggregator subsystem. The new device
type takes care of managing the controller reference, essentially
guaranteeing its validity for as long as the client device exists, thus
alleviating the need to manually establish device links for that purpose
in the client driver (as has to be done with the platform devices).

Signed-off-by: Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201221183959.1186143-7-luzmaximilian@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/Kconfig
drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/Makefile
drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/bus.c [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/bus.h [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/core.c
include/linux/mod_devicetable.h
include/linux/surface_aggregator/device.h [new file with mode: 0644]
scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.c
scripts/mod/file2alias.c