diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-soundwire-slave b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-soundwire-slave
index db4c9511d1aa..425adf7b8aec 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-soundwire-slave
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-soundwire-slave
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+What:		/sys/bus/soundwire/devices/sdw:.../dev-status/status
+		/sys/bus/soundwire/devices/sdw:.../dev-status/device_number
+
+Date:		September 2020
+
+Contact:	Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>
+		Bard Liao <yung-chuan.liao@linux.intel.com>
+		Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
+
+Description:	SoundWire Slave status
+
+		These properties report the Slave status, e.g. if it
+		is UNATTACHED or not, and in the latter case show the
+		device_number. This status information is useful to
+		detect devices exposed by platform firmware but not
+		physically present on the bus, and conversely devices
+		not exposed in platform firmware but enumerated.
+
 What:		/sys/bus/soundwire/devices/sdw:.../dev-properties/mipi_revision
 		/sys/bus/soundwire/devices/sdw:.../dev-properties/wake_capable
 		/sys/bus/soundwire/devices/sdw:.../dev-properties/test_mode_capable
diff --git a/drivers/soundwire/slave.c b/drivers/soundwire/slave.c
index 19b012310c29..ee554a215e44 100644
--- a/drivers/soundwire/slave.c
+++ b/drivers/soundwire/slave.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #include <linux/soundwire/sdw.h>
 #include <linux/soundwire/sdw_type.h>
 #include "bus.h"
+#include "sysfs_local.h"
 
 static void sdw_slave_release(struct device *dev)
 {
@@ -83,6 +84,7 @@ int sdw_slave_add(struct sdw_bus *bus,
 		return ret;
 	}
 	sdw_slave_debugfs_init(slave);
+	sdw_slave_status_sysfs_init(slave);
 
 	return ret;
 }
diff --git a/drivers/soundwire/sysfs_local.h b/drivers/soundwire/sysfs_local.h
index ff60adee3c41..52f2eabf5b4b 100644
--- a/drivers/soundwire/sysfs_local.h
+++ b/drivers/soundwire/sysfs_local.h
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@
  * SDW sysfs APIs -
  */
 
+/* basic routine to report status of Slave (attachment, dev_num) */
+int sdw_slave_status_sysfs_init(struct sdw_slave *slave);
+
+/* additional device-managed properties reported after driver probe */
 int sdw_slave_sysfs_init(struct sdw_slave *slave);
 int sdw_slave_sysfs_dpn_init(struct sdw_slave *slave);
 
diff --git a/drivers/soundwire/sysfs_slave.c b/drivers/soundwire/sysfs_slave.c
index f510071b0add..36eaca343601 100644
--- a/drivers/soundwire/sysfs_slave.c
+++ b/drivers/soundwire/sysfs_slave.c
@@ -16,10 +16,14 @@
 
 /*
  * The sysfs for Slave reflects the MIPI description as given
- * in the MIPI DisCo spec
+ * in the MIPI DisCo spec. dev-status properties come directly
+ * from the MIPI SoundWire specification.
  *
  * Base file is device
  *	|---- modalias
+ *	|---- dev-status
+ *		|---- status
+ *		|---- device_number
  *	|---- dev-properties
  *		|---- mipi_revision
  *		|---- wake_capable
@@ -212,3 +216,61 @@ int sdw_slave_sysfs_init(struct sdw_slave *slave)
 
 	return 0;
 }
+
+/*
+ * the status is shown in capital letters for UNATTACHED and RESERVED
+ * on purpose, to alert users to the fact that these status values are
+ * not expected.
+ */
+static const char *const slave_status[] = {
+	[SDW_SLAVE_UNATTACHED] =  "UNATTACHED",
+	[SDW_SLAVE_ATTACHED] = "Attached",
+	[SDW_SLAVE_ALERT] = "Alert",
+	[SDW_SLAVE_RESERVED] = "RESERVED",
+};
+
+static ssize_t status_show(struct device *dev,
+			   struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+	struct sdw_slave *slave = dev_to_sdw_dev(dev);
+
+	return sprintf(buf, "%s\n", slave_status[slave->status]);
+}
+static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(status);
+
+static ssize_t device_number_show(struct device *dev,
+				  struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+	struct sdw_slave *slave = dev_to_sdw_dev(dev);
+
+	if (slave->status == SDW_SLAVE_UNATTACHED)
+		return sprintf(buf, "%s", "N/A");
+	else
+		return sprintf(buf, "%d", slave->dev_num);
+}
+static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(device_number);
+
+static struct attribute *slave_status_attrs[] = {
+	&dev_attr_status.attr,
+	&dev_attr_device_number.attr,
+	NULL,
+};
+
+/*
+ * we don't use ATTRIBUTES_GROUP here since we want to add a subdirectory
+ * for device-status
+ */
+static struct attribute_group sdw_slave_status_attr_group = {
+	.attrs	= slave_status_attrs,
+	.name = "dev-status",
+};
+
+/*
+ * We can't use devm_ here, otherwise resources would be added before
+ * the driver probe. The group is removed in device_del() however.
+ */
+
+int sdw_slave_status_sysfs_init(struct sdw_slave *slave)
+{
+	return device_add_group(&slave->dev, &sdw_slave_status_attr_group);
+}
