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