linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH linux v2 0/6] drivers: hwmon: Add On-Chip Controller driver

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Date:   Sun, 15 Jan 2017 10:35:10 -0800
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     eajames.ibm@...il.com
Cc:     devicetree@...r.kernel.org, jdelvare@...e.com, corbet@....net,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        mark.rutland@....com, robh+dt@...nel.org, wsa@...-dreams.de,
        andrew@...id.au, joel@....id.au, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
        "Edward A. James" <eajames@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux v2 0/6] drivers: hwmon: Add On-Chip Controller
 driver

On 01/11/2017 10:10 AM, eajames.ibm@...il.com wrote:
> From: "Edward A. James" <eajames@...ibm.com>
>
> This patchset adds a hwmon driver to support the OCC (On-Chip Controller)
> on the IBM POWER8 and POWER9 processors, from a BMC (Baseboard Management
> Controller). The OCC is an embedded processor that provides real time
> power and thermal monitoring.
>
> The driver provides an interface on a BMC to poll OCC sensor data, set
> user power caps, and perform some basic OCC error handling. It interfaces
> with userspace through hwmon.
>
> The driver is currently functional only for the OCC on POWER8 chips.
> Communicating with the POWER9 OCC requries FSI support.
>

Overall looks pretty good. There is the 0day hiccup (was that solved ?) and
a few comments I made separately. It might make sense to add someone from IBM
as maintainer.

Thanks,
Guenter

> Edward A. James (6):
>   hwmon: Add core On-Chip Controller support for POWER CPUs
>   hwmon: occ: Add sysfs interface
>   hwmon: occ: Add I2C transport implementation for SCOM operations
>   hwmon: occ: Add callbacks for parsing P8 OCC datastructures
>   hwmon: occ: Add hwmon implementation for the P8 OCC
>   hwmon: occ: Add callbacks for parsing P9 OCC datastructures
>
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/occ.txt |  13 +
>  Documentation/hwmon/occ                         | 114 +++++
>  drivers/hwmon/Kconfig                           |   2 +
>  drivers/hwmon/Makefile                          |   1 +
>  drivers/hwmon/occ/Kconfig                       |  29 ++
>  drivers/hwmon/occ/Makefile                      |   2 +
>  drivers/hwmon/occ/occ.c                         | 533 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/hwmon/occ/occ.h                         |  83 ++++
>  drivers/hwmon/occ/occ_p8.c                      | 254 +++++++++++
>  drivers/hwmon/occ/occ_p8.h                      |  31 ++
>  drivers/hwmon/occ/occ_p9.c                      | 314 ++++++++++++++
>  drivers/hwmon/occ/occ_p9.h                      |  31 ++
>  drivers/hwmon/occ/occ_scom_i2c.c                |  73 ++++
>  drivers/hwmon/occ/occ_scom_i2c.h                |  26 ++
>  drivers/hwmon/occ/occ_sysfs.c                   | 274 ++++++++++++
>  drivers/hwmon/occ/occ_sysfs.h                   |  44 ++
>  drivers/hwmon/occ/p8_occ_i2c.c                  | 123 ++++++
>  drivers/hwmon/occ/scom.h                        |  47 +++
>  18 files changed, 1994 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/occ.txt
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/hwmon/occ
>  create mode 100644 drivers/hwmon/occ/Kconfig
>  create mode 100644 drivers/hwmon/occ/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 drivers/hwmon/occ/occ.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/hwmon/occ/occ.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/hwmon/occ/occ_p8.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/hwmon/occ/occ_p8.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/hwmon/occ/occ_p9.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/hwmon/occ/occ_p9.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/hwmon/occ/occ_scom_i2c.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/hwmon/occ/occ_scom_i2c.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/hwmon/occ/occ_sysfs.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/hwmon/occ/occ_sysfs.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/hwmon/occ/p8_occ_i2c.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/hwmon/occ/scom.h
>