[PATCH net v2 1/4] auxiliary: Support hexadecimal ids

[Leon Romanovsky]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 01:12:08PM -0400, Sean Anderson wrote:
> On 7/17/25 12:33, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

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> Anyway, if you really think ids should be random or whatever, why not
> just ida_alloc one in axiliary_device_init and ignore whatever's
> provided? I'd say around half the auxiliary drivers just use 0 (or some
> other constant), which is just as deterministic as using the device
> address.

I would say that auxiliary bus is not right fit for such devices. This
bus was introduced for more complex devices, like the one who has their
own ida_alloc logic.


> Another third use ida_alloc (or xa_alloc) so all that could be
> removed.

These ID numbers need to be per-device.

Thanks

> 
> --Sean