linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] hwmon: (occ) Provide the SBEFIFO FFDC in binary sysfs

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Date:   Thu, 16 Sep 2021 07:27:48 +0000
From:   Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>
To:     Eddie James <eajames@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, linux-fsi@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>,
        Alistair Popple <alistair@...ple.id.au>,
        Jeremy Kerr <jk@...abs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] hwmon: (occ) Provide the SBEFIFO FFDC in binary sysfs

On Wed, 15 Sept 2021 at 21:11, Eddie James <eajames@...ux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2021-09-15 at 09:13 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 04:35:43PM -0500, Eddie James wrote:
> > > Save any FFDC provided by the OCC driver, and provide it to
> > > userspace
> > > through a binary sysfs entry. Do some basic state management to
> > > ensure that userspace can always collect the data if there was an
> > > error. Notify polling userspace when there is an error too.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Eddie James <eajames@...ux.ibm.com>
> >
> > This is now the 2nd series that we have pending, and the first series
> > (from July) still didn't make it into the upstream kernel because the
> > fsi code
> > seems to go nowhere. Any chance to address that ?
>
> Yes... Joel, can we merge that? I don't have any comments to address.

Thanks for the reminder. We have a queue of FSI patches to send out. I
hope to get that done this coming merge window.

Cheers,

Joel