+/**
+ * Bus specific parsing function.
+ * Validates the syntax used in the textual representation of a device,
+ * If the syntax is valid and ``addr`` is not NULL, writes the bus-specific
+ * device representation to ``addr``.
+ *
+ * @param[in] name
+ * device textual description
+ *
+ * @param[out] addr
+ * device information location address, into which parsed info
+ * should be written. If NULL, nothing should be written, which
+ * is not an error.
+ *
+ * @return
+ * 0 if parsing was successful.
+ * !0 for any error.
+ */
+typedef int (*rte_bus_parse_t)(const char *name, void *addr);
+
+/**
+ * Bus scan policies
+ */
+enum rte_bus_scan_mode {
+ RTE_BUS_SCAN_UNDEFINED,
+ RTE_BUS_SCAN_WHITELIST,
+ RTE_BUS_SCAN_BLACKLIST,
+};
+
+/**
+ * A structure used to configure bus operations.
+ */
+struct rte_bus_conf {
+ enum rte_bus_scan_mode scan_mode; /**< Scan policy. */
+};
+
+
+/**
+ * Get common iommu class of the all the devices on the bus. The bus may
+ * check that those devices are attached to iommu driver.
+ * If no devices are attached to the bus. The bus may return with don't care
+ * (_DC) value.
+ * Otherwise, The bus will return appropriate _pa or _va iova mode.
+ *
+ * @return
+ * enum rte_iova_mode value.
+ */
+typedef enum rte_iova_mode (*rte_bus_get_iommu_class_t)(void);
+
+