linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] add device drivers for Siemens Industrial PCs

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <CAHp75VeYN_q0OVoTGQ5fe-08exfGgpM3-ohG8iF4D8B_fKar=g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 4 Mar 2021 12:19:44 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Henning Schild <henning.schild@...mens.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux LED Subsystem <linux-leds@...r.kernel.org>,
        Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org,
        Srikanth Krishnakar <skrishnakar@...il.com>,
        Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>,
        Gerd Haeussler <gerd.haeussler.ext@...mens.com>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ux-watchdog.org>,
        Mark Gross <mgross@...ux.intel.com>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] add device drivers for Siemens Industrial PCs

On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 9:29 AM Henning Schild
<henning.schild@...mens.com> wrote:

> This series adds support for watchdogs and leds of several x86 devices
> from Siemens.
>
> It is structured with a platform driver that mainly does identification
> of the machines. It might trigger loading of the actual device drivers
> by attaching devices to the platform bus.
>
> The identification is vendor specific, parsing a special binary DMI
> entry. The implementation of that platform identification is applied on
> pmc_atom clock quirks in the final patch.
>
> It is all structured in a way that we can easily add more devices and
> more platform drivers later. Internally we have some more code for
> hardware monitoring, more leds, watchdogs etc. This will follow some
> day.
>
> But the idea here is to share early, and hopefully not fail early.

I have given a few comments here and there, so please check the entire
series and address them in _all_ similar locations. As I have noticed,
I have different approach about P2SB code, I have to give the series a
dust and see if you can utilize it.

I would like to be Cc'ed on the next version.


-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko