linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 19/20] platform/x86: intel_pmc

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Message-ID: <20200417105704.GE3737@dell>
Date:   Fri, 17 Apr 2020 11:57:04 +0100
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:     Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Zha Qipeng <qipeng.zha@...el.com>,
        "David E . Box" <david.e.box@...ux.intel.com>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ux-watchdog.org>,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 19/20] platform/x86: intel_pmc_ipc: Convert to MFD

On Thu, 16 Apr 2020, Mika Westerberg wrote:

> This driver only creates a bunch of platform devices sharing resources
> belonging to the PMC device. This is pretty much what MFD subsystem is
> for so move the driver there, renaming it to intel_pmc_bxt.c which
> should be more clear what it is.
> 
> MFD subsystem provides nice helper APIs for subdevice creation so
> convert the driver to use those. Unfortunately the ACPI device includes
> separate resources for most of the subdevices so we cannot simply call
> mfd_add_devices() to create all of them but instead we need to call it
> separately for each device.
> 
> The new MFD driver continues to expose two sysfs attributes that allow
> userspace to send IPC commands to the PMC/SCU to avoid breaking any
> existing applications that may use these. Generally this is bad idea so
> document this in the ABI documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
>  .../ABI/obsolete/sysfs-driver-intel_pmc_bxt   |  22 +
>  arch/x86/include/asm/intel_pmc_ipc.h          |  47 --
>  arch/x86/include/asm/intel_telemetry.h        |   1 +
>  drivers/mfd/Kconfig                           |  16 +-
>  drivers/mfd/Makefile                          |   1 +
>  drivers/mfd/intel_pmc_bxt.c                   | 468 +++++++++++++
>  drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig                  |  16 +-
>  drivers/platform/x86/Makefile                 |   1 -
>  drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_ipc.c          | 645 ------------------
>  .../platform/x86/intel_telemetry_debugfs.c    |  12 +-
>  drivers/platform/x86/intel_telemetry_pltdrv.c |   2 +
>  drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/Kconfig                |   2 +-
>  drivers/watchdog/iTCO_wdt.c                   |  25 +-
>  include/linux/mfd/intel_pmc_bxt.h             |  53 ++
>  include/linux/platform_data/itco_wdt.h        |  11 +-
>  15 files changed, 602 insertions(+), 720 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-driver-intel_pmc_bxt
>  delete mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/intel_pmc_ipc.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/mfd/intel_pmc_bxt.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_ipc.c
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/mfd/intel_pmc_bxt.h

Looks good to me know.

Thanks for taking the time to realise my review comments.

For my own reference (apply this as-is to your sign-off block):

  Acked-for-MFD-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>

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