Re: [PATCH v11 2/7] anybus-s: support HMS Anybus-S bus

[Sven Van Asbroeck]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 1:10 PM Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
<lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Is it some proprietary backplane bus, where things like eg. fieldbus
> adapters are attached to ?
>
> I see some struct bus_type field declaration - is that going to be some
> subsystem, similar to those for other bus'es (eg. pci, usb, ...) ?
>

Correct on both points :)
The author of this proprietary standard (HMS) calls this a bus, but only
a single card can be connected to a slot. So it's not like pci or usb,
where you can connect multiple devices to a host.

> Maybe that deserves a bit more documentation :p
>

Sure, I can do that. What would be the best location for this?
The commit message? The Kconfig blurb? Comments in host.c?
Somewhere in Documentation/ ?

Sven