driver core: add a faux bus for use when a simple device/bus is needed

Many drivers abuse the platform driver/bus system as it provides a
simple way to create and bind a device to a driver-specific set of
probe/release functions.  Instead of doing that, and wasting all of the
memory associated with a platform device, here is a "faux" bus that
can be used instead.

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2025021026-atlantic-gibberish-3f0c@gregkh
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/base/init.c b/drivers/base/init.c
index c4954835128c..9d2b06d65dfc 100644
--- a/drivers/base/init.c
+++ b/drivers/base/init.c
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ void __init driver_init(void)
 	/* These are also core pieces, but must come after the
 	 * core core pieces.
 	 */
+	faux_bus_init();
 	of_core_init();
 	platform_bus_init();
 	auxiliary_bus_init();