linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 8/9] misc: smpro-misc: Add Ampere's Altra SMpro misc driver

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Message-ID: <Ycw1/XufNWq/FUss@google.com>
Date:   Wed, 29 Dec 2021 10:18:37 +0000
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:     Quan Nguyen <quan@...amperecomputing.com>
Cc:     Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>, Andrew Jeffery <andrew@...id.au>,
        Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-aspeed@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Derek Kiernan <derek.kiernan@...inx.com>,
        Dragan Cvetic <dragan.cvetic@...inx.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Gustavo Pimentel <Gustavo.Pimentel@...opsys.com>,
        Open Source Submission <patches@...erecomputing.com>,
        Phong Vo <phong@...amperecomputing.com>,
        "Thang Q . Nguyen" <thang@...amperecomputing.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 8/9] misc: smpro-misc: Add Ampere's Altra SMpro misc
 driver

On Fri, 24 Dec 2021, Quan Nguyen wrote:

> This commit adds driver support for accessing various information
> reported by Ampere's SMpro co-processor such as Boot Progress and
> other miscellaneous data.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Quan Nguyen <quan@...amperecomputing.com>
> ---
> Change in v6:
>   + First introduced in v6 [Quan]
> 
>  drivers/mfd/smpro-mfd.c   |   1 +

Please pull all of these patches out.

There are no build dependencies here.

>  drivers/misc/Kconfig      |   7 ++
>  drivers/misc/Makefile     |   1 +
>  drivers/misc/smpro-misc.c | 177 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 186 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/smpro-misc.c
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/smpro-mfd.c b/drivers/mfd/smpro-mfd.c
> index a7cd64bf9eaa..5611dd30f8f4 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/smpro-mfd.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/smpro-mfd.c
> @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ static const struct regmap_config simple_word_regmap_config = {
>  static const struct mfd_cell smpro_devs[] = {
>  	MFD_CELL_NAME("smpro-hwmon"),
>  	MFD_CELL_NAME("smpro-errmon"),
> +	MFD_CELL_NAME("smpro-misc"),

Misc is a Linuxisum which are not allowed in DT.

What does this driver actually do?

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