On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 10:09 AM Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 02:35:51PM -0400, Sven Van Asbroeck wrote: > > Add the FL-NET device type to the fieldbus core. > > What does this mean? > > You add an unspecified enumerated type and suddenly new hardware starts > working? That feels really wrong to me... >
This just empowers fieldbus devices to id themselves as 'flnet' when they register with the core: priv->fbdev.fieldbus_type = FIELDBUS_DEV_TYPE_FLNET; ... err = fieldbus_dev_register(&priv->fbdev); The core exports this as a sysfs property, so that userspace has a standardized way of determining the fieldbus type when looking at the fieldbus dev's sysfs dir. Yes the commit message is too confusing. I'll write a better one if/when I repost flnet support. Might be a while because you indicated "no new h/w support while still in staging".
