linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH ipmi/kcs_bmc v1] ipmi: add an NPCM7xx KCS BMC driver

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Message-ID: <9fffe8eb-5e9b-db84-be9e-fa415d52a88b@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Sat, 14 Apr 2018 00:25:11 +0800
From:   "Wang, Haiyue" <haiyue.wang@...ux.intel.com>
To:     minyard@....org, openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     joel@....id.au, avifishman70@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH ipmi/kcs_bmc v1] ipmi: add an NPCM7xx KCS BMC driver

Thanks, Corey.

BR,

Haiyue


On 2018-04-13 23:56, Corey Minyard wrote:
> On 03/22/2018 07:50 AM, Haiyue Wang wrote:
>> This driver exposes the Keyboard Controller Style (KCS) interface on
>> Novoton NPCM7xx SoCs as a character device. Such SOCs are commonly used
>> as a BaseBoard Management Controller (BMC) on a server board, and KCS
>> interface is commonly used to perform the in-band IPMI communication
>> between the server and its BMC.
>
> Sorry, I missed this.  It is queued for the next kernel release.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -corey