linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V8 2/5] mfd: Intel Platform Monitoring Technology support

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Message-ID: <09930d0783d6a5f17f9af872b4fc7a244c6dc5e1.camel@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 07 Oct 2020 09:10:41 -0700
From:   "David E. Box" <david.e.box@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
Cc:     dvhart@...radead.org, andy@...radead.org, bhelgaas@...gle.com,
        hdegoede@...hat.com, alexey.budankov@...ux.intel.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V8 2/5] mfd: Intel Platform Monitoring Technology support

On Wed, 2020-10-07 at 07:57 +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Oct 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. This patch
> > adds
> > support for Tiger Lake (TGL), Alder Lake (ADL), and Out-of-Band
> > Management
> > Services Module (OOBMSM).
> > 
> > Also add a quirk mechanism for several early hardware differences
> > and bugs.
> > For Tiger Lake and Alder 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 | 226
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  4 files changed, 242 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/mfd/intel_pmt.c
> 
> I Acked this back in August.
> 
> Any reason why you didn't carry it forward?

So that you could review changes made after the Ack. You did and you
requested fixups which were made. Please let me know if this is not
preferred. Thanks.

David