linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] FSI updates round 4 (last) for 4.19

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Date:   Fri, 27 Jul 2018 11:02:47 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org, Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] FSI updates round 4 (last) for 4.19

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 10:10:57AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Hi Greg !
> 
> This adds a few fixes for things reported since the last merge,
> and the latch batch of changes pending for FSI for 4.19.
> 
> That batch is a rather mechanical conversion of the misc devices
> into proper char devices.
> 
> The misc devices were ill suited, the minor space for them is
> limited and we can have a lot of chips in a system creating FSI
> devices.
> 
> This also allows us to better control (and fix) object lifetime
> getting rid of the bad devm_kzalloc() of the structures containing
> the devices etc...
> 
> Finally, we add a chardev to the core FSI that provides raw CFAM
> access to FSI slaves as a replacement for the current "raw" binary
> sysfs file which will be ultimately deprecated and removed.
> 
> Thanks !
> Ben.
> 
> The following changes since commit 0a213777d1dd879092225a7aa847b6e9b3a1c267:
> 
>   fsi: Add support for device-tree provided chip IDs (2018-07-23 16:27:32 +1000)
> 
> are available in the Git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/linux-fsi.git tags/fsi-updates-2018-07-27

Pulled in and pushed out, thanks.

greg k-h