linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V5 2/3] mfd: Intel Platform Monitoring Technology support

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Date:   Fri, 28 Aug 2020 11:53:04 +0100
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:     "David E. Box" <david.e.box@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     dvhart@...radead.org, andy@...radead.org, bhelgaas@...gle.com,
        alexander.h.duyck@...ux.intel.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 2/3] mfd: Intel Platform Monitoring Technology support

On Wed, 19 Aug 2020, David E. Box wrote:

> Intel Platform Monitoring Technology (PMT) is an architecture for
> enumerating and accessing hardware monitoring facilities. PMT supports
> multiple types of monitoring capabilities. This driver creates platform
> devices for each type so that they may be managed by capability specific
> drivers (to be introduced). Capabilities are discovered using PCIe DVSEC
> ids. Support is included for the 3 current capability types, Telemetry,
> Watcher, and Crashlog. The features are available on new Intel platforms
> starting from Tiger Lake for which support is added.
> 
> Also add a quirk mechanism for several early hardware differences and bugs.
> For Tiger Lake, do not support Watcher and Crashlog capabilities since they
> will not be compatible with future product. Also, fix use a quirk to fix
> the discovery table offset.
> 
> Co-developed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...ux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...ux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: David E. Box <david.e.box@...ux.intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS             |   5 +
>  drivers/mfd/Kconfig     |  10 ++
>  drivers/mfd/Makefile    |   1 +
>  drivers/mfd/intel_pmt.c | 220 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 236 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/mfd/intel_pmt.c

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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