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Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 09:04:44 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Kohei Tarumizu <tarumizu.kohei@...itsu.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/8] drivers: base: Add Kconfig/Makefile to build
hardware prefetch control core driver
On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 03:30:26PM +0900, Kohei Tarumizu wrote:
> Adds Kconfig/Makefile to build hardware prefetch control core driver,
> and also adds a MAINTAINERS entry.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kohei Tarumizu <tarumizu.kohei@...itsu.com>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 6 ++++++
> drivers/base/Kconfig | 9 +++++++++
> drivers/base/Makefile | 1 +
> 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index d6d879cb0afd..f188403bc2e9 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -8620,6 +8620,12 @@ F: include/linux/hwmon*.h
> F: include/trace/events/hwmon*.h
> K: (devm_)?hwmon_device_(un)?register(|_with_groups|_with_info)
>
> +HARDWARE PREFETCH CONTROL DRIVERS
> +M: Kohei Tarumizu <tarumizu.kohei@...itsu.com>
> +S: Maintained
> +F: drivers/base/pfctl.c
> +F: include/linux/pfctl.h
> +
> HARDWARE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR CORE
> M: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
> M: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig
> index 6f04b831a5c0..8f8a69e7f645 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
> @@ -230,4 +230,13 @@ config GENERIC_ARCH_NUMA
> Enable support for generic NUMA implementation. Currently, RISC-V
> and ARM64 use it.
>
> +config HWPF_CONTROL
Shouldn't this have "GENERIC" in the name liks the other generic
implementations in this directory?
> + bool "Hardware Prefetch Control driver"
> + help
> + This driver allows user to control CPU's Hardware Prefetch behavior.
> + If the machine supports this behavior, it provides a sysfs interface.
But this is not a driver, it's a core function that a driver uses. On
its own, this code does nothing.
thanks,
greg k-h
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