Hello,
On 09/23/2016 08:34 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 09:01:38AM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
>> From: Alistair Popple <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> This patch adds a simple device driver to expose the iBT interface on
>> Aspeed SOCs (AST2400 and AST2500) as a character device. Such SOCs are
>> commonly used as BMCs (BaseBoard Management Controllers) and this
>> driver implements the BMC side of the BT interface.
>>
>> The BT (Block Transfer) interface is used to perform in-band IPMI
>> communication between a host and its BMC. Entire messages are buffered
>> before sending a notification to the other end, host or BMC, that
>> there is data to be read. Usually, the host emits requests and the BMC
>> responses but the specification provides a mean for the BMC to send
>> SMS Attention (BMC-to-Host attention or System Management Software
>> attention) messages.
>>
>> For this purpose, the driver introduces a specific ioctl on the
>> device: 'BT_BMC_IOCTL_SMS_ATN' that can be used by the system running
>> on the BMC to signal the host of such an event.
>>
>> The device name defaults to '/dev/ipmi-bt-host'
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx>
>> [clg: - checkpatch fixes
>> - added a devicetree binding documentation
>> - replace 'bt_host' by 'bt_bmc' to reflect that the driver is
>> the BMC side of the IPMI BT interface
>> - renamed the device to 'ipmi-bt-host'
>> - introduced a temporary buffer to copy_{to,from}_user
>> - used platform_get_irq()
>> - moved the driver under drivers/char/ipmi/ but kept it as a misc
>> device
>> - changed the compatible cell to "aspeed,ast2400-bt-bmc"
>> ]
>> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@xxxxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>> [clg: - checkpatch --strict fixes
>> - removed the use of devm_iounmap, devm_kfree in cleanup paths
>> - introduced an atomic-t to limit opens to 1
>> - introduced a mutex to protect write/read operations]
>> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@xxxxxxxx>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Changes since v2:
>>
>> - fixed checkpatch --strict issues
>> - cleanup'ed includes
>> - limit to one opener
>> - protect write/read operations with a mutex.
>> - removed the use of devm_iounmap, devm_kfree in cleanup paths
>>
>> Changes since v1:
>>
>> - replace 'bt_host' by 'bt_bmc' to reflect that the driver is
>> the BMC side of the IPMI BT interface
>> - renamed the device to 'ipmi-bt-host'
>> - introduced a temporary buffer to copy_{to,from}_user
>> - used platform_get_irq()
>> - moved the driver under drivers/char/ipmi/ but kept it as a misc
>> device
>> - changed the compatible cell to "aspeed,ast2400-bt-bmc"
>>
>> .../bindings/char/ipmi/aspeed,ast2400-bt-bmc.txt | 23 +
>
> While similar, this is not the kernel directory structure. Just make
> this bindings/ipmi/
>
> With that,
>
> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
OK. So I suppose we should be moving all IPMI documentation under
the same directory.
Corey,
If the move is okay for you, I can send the patch below.
Thanks,
C.
>From ca25f89b25209c260480cda5e5532d6bbe83ed43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?C=C3=A9dric=20Le=20Goater?= <clg@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 08:45:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] dt-bindings: ipmi: move all documentation under
bindings/ipmi/
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Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@xxxxxxxx>
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.../devicetree/bindings/{char => }/ipmi/aspeed,ast2400-bt-bmc.txt | 0
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/{ipmi.txt => ipmi/ipmi-smic.txt} | 0
2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/{char => }/ipmi/aspeed,ast2400-bt-bmc.txt (100%)
rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/{ipmi.txt => ipmi/ipmi-smic.txt} (100%)
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/char/ipmi/aspeed,ast2400-bt-bmc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ipmi/aspeed,ast2400-bt-bmc.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from Documentation/devicetree/bindings/char/ipmi/aspeed,ast2400-bt-bmc.txt
rename to Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ipmi/aspeed,ast2400-bt-bmc.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ipmi.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ipmi/ipmi-smic.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ipmi.txt
rename to Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ipmi/ipmi-smic.txt
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