linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] platform/x86: simatic-ipc: add another model and hwmon module loading

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Message-ID: <ac49e4a3-8fe1-b501-2a62-7c06a9ed36b6@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 14 Jul 2023 12:11:04 +0200
From:   Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
To:     Henning Schild <henning.schild@...mens.com>,
        Mark Gross <markgross@...nel.org>,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Tobias Schaffner <tobias.schaffner@...mens.com>,
        Gerd Haeussler <gerd.haeussler.ext@...mens.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] platform/x86: simatic-ipc: add another model and
 hwmon module loading

Hi,

On 7/13/23 16:48, Henning Schild wrote:
> cahnged since v1:
>  - switch to using a list of modules per device
>  - add p3 and make the watchdog module load code use what p2 created
> 
> The first patch just adds a device that is pretty similar to another one
> we already had here.
> 
> The second patch loads modules for hwmon support, should they be
> available. That will save users the need to detect and manually load
> those modules after a machine has been clearly identified by its Siemens
> Simatic IPC station id.
> 
> And finally p3 changes another request_module call to use the mechanism
> introduced in p2.
> 
> Henning Schild (3):
>   platform/x86: simatic-ipc: add another model
>   platform/x86: simatic-ipc: add auto-loading of hwmon modules
>   platform/x86: simatic-ipc: use extra module loading for watchdog

Thank you. I've merged this into the new platform-drivers-x86-simatic-ipc
branch where I'm collecting all the pending platform/x86: simatic-ipc
work.

Regards,

Hans




>  drivers/platform/x86/simatic-ipc.c            | 74 ++++++++++++++-----
>  include/linux/platform_data/x86/simatic-ipc.h |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>