linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] occ: fsi and hwmon: Fixes for polling un-initialized OCC

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Message-ID: <CACPK8XdWeJN9r3fsLLXn0OYxmM7NDAbONJvnKy+23sEFZMJaUw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 6 Apr 2021 07:22:09 +0000
From:   Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>
To:     Eddie James <eajames@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     linux-fsi@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jeremy Kerr <jk@...abs.org>,
        Alistair Popple <alistair@...ple.id.au>,
        Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] occ: fsi and hwmon: Fixes for polling un-initialized OCC

On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 at 15:34, Eddie James <eajames@...ux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2021-02-09 at 11:12 -0600, Eddie James wrote:
> > In the event that the OCC is not initialized when the driver sends a
> > poll
> > command, the driver may receive an invalid response. This isn't an
> > error
> > condition unless there is no valid response before the timeout
> > expires. So
> > change the starting sequence number and check for the un-initialized
> > OCC
> > state before returning the response in order to detect this condition
> > and
> > continue waiting if necessary.
>
> Hi Joel,
>
> Do you have any comments on the FSI side of this series?

They look fine to me. Guenter, if you want to take the series through
the hwmon tree I do not anticipate any conflicts.

Cheers,

Joel