linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/10] ocxl: Conditionally bind SCM devices to the generic OCXL driver

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Message-Id: <e1a28cc0-2a48-3149-ee77-0c4bc2727aa7@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed, 6 Nov 2019 14:46:40 +1100
From:   Andrew Donnellan <ajd@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     "Alastair D'Silva" <alastair@....ibm.com>, alastair@...ilva.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] ocxl: Conditionally bind SCM devices to the generic
 OCXL driver

On 25/10/19 3:47 pm, Alastair D'Silva wrote:
> From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@...ilva.org>
> 
> This patch allows the user to bind OpenCAPI SCM devices to the generic OCXL
> driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@...ilva.org>

Agree that this needs more explanation - both in the commit and the 
Kconfig help.

> diff --git a/drivers/misc/ocxl/pci.c b/drivers/misc/ocxl/pci.c
> index cb920aa88d3a..7137055c1883 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/ocxl/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/ocxl/pci.c
> @@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
>    */
>   static const struct pci_device_id ocxl_pci_tbl[] = {
>   	{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_IBM, 0x062B), },
> +#ifdef CONFIG_OCXL_SCM_GENERIC
> +	{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_IBM, 0x0625), },
> +#endif
>   	{ }
>   };
>   MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, ocxl_pci_tbl);
> 

If there's no way to use the ID table from ocxl-scm directly, there 
should at least be a comment both here and in the ocxl-scm device ID 
table mentioning that you need to keep these in sync.

-- 
Andrew Donnellan              OzLabs, ADL Canberra
ajd@...ux.ibm.com             IBM Australia Limited