linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] platform/mellanox: mlxbf-pmc: Fix module loading

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Message-Id: <170895404513.2243.14840310263795846559.b4-ty@linux.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:27:25 +0200
From: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
To: shravankr@...dia.com, Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@...hat.com>
Cc: davthompson@...dia.com, ndalvi@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] platform/mellanox: mlxbf-pmc: Fix module loading

On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:57:28 -0500, Luiz Capitulino wrote:

> The mlxbf-pmc driver fails to load when the firmware reports a new but not
> yet implemented performance block. I can reproduce this today with a
> Bluefield-3 card and UEFI version 4.6.0-18-g7d063bb-BId13035, since this
> reports the new clock_measure performance block.
> 
> This[1] patch from Shravan implements the clock_measure support and will
> solve the issue. But this series avoids the situation by ignoring and
> logging unsupported performance blocks.
> 
> [...]


Thank you for your contribution, it has been applied to my local
review-ilpo branch. Note it will show up in the public
platform-drivers-x86/review-ilpo branch only once I've pushed my
local branch there, which might take a while.

The list of commits applied:
[1/2] platform/mellanox: mlxbf-pmc: mlxbf_pmc_event_list(): make size ptr optional
      commit: c5b649996ac63d43f1d4185de177c90d664b2230
[2/2] platform/mellanox: mlxbf-pmc: Ignore unsupported performance blocks
      commit: 4e39d7be4123f65adf78b0a466cbaf1169d7cedb

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