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

[Sean Anderson]

On 7/20/25 04:17, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> 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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> <...>
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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.

I'd say that around 2/3 of the auxiliary drivers that have non-constant
ids use ida_alloc solely for the auxiliary bus and for no other purpose.
I don't think that's the kind of complexity you're referring to.

>> Another third use ida_alloc (or xa_alloc) so all that could be
>> removed.
> 
> These ID numbers need to be per-device.

Why? They are arbitrary with no semantic meaning, right?

--Sean