On Tue, 03 Nov 2020, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Nov 2020, AceLan Kao wrote:
>
> > Hi Lee,
> >
> > One question for you.
> >
> > Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> 於 2020年10月29日 週四 下午9:14寫道：
> > >
> > > On Thu, 29 Oct 2020, Shihlun Lin wrote:
> > >
> > > > This is one of sub-device driver for Advantech embedded controller
> > > > AHC1EC0. This driver provides sysfs ABI for Advantech related
> > > > applications to monitor the system status.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Shihlun Lin <shihlun.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > LKP reported that your driver needed upstreaming?
> > >
> > > I'm confused!
> > >
> > > > ---
> > > > drivers/mfd/Kconfig | 8 +
> > > > drivers/mfd/Makefile | 1 +
> > > > drivers/mfd/ahc1ec0-hwmon.c | 1514 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >
> > > This obviously belongs in drivers/hwmon.
> > >
> > > > 3 files changed, 1523 insertions(+)
> > > > create mode 100644 drivers/mfd/ahc1ec0-hwmon.c
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/mfd/Kconfig b/drivers/mfd/Kconfig
> > > > index 965bcafbe5b2..52ca49b211fc 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/mfd/Kconfig
> > > > +++ b/drivers/mfd/Kconfig
> > > > @@ -2175,5 +2175,13 @@ config MFD_AHC1EC0
> > > > provides expose functions for sub-devices to read/write the value
> > > > to embedded controller.
> > > >
> > > > +config MFD_AHC1EC0_HWMON
> > > > + tristate "Advantech EC Hareware Monitor Function"
> > > > + depends on MFD_AHC1EC0
> > > > + help
> > > > + This is sub-device for Advantech embedded controller AHC1EC0. This
> > > > + driver provides the sysfs attribues for applications to monitor
> > > > + the system status.
> > > > +
> > > > endmenu
> > > > endif
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/mfd/Makefile b/drivers/mfd/Makefile
> > > > index 80a9a2bdc3ba..eb645db817b5 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/mfd/Makefile
> > > > +++ b/drivers/mfd/Makefile
> > > > @@ -269,3 +269,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_MFD_SIMPLE_MFD_I2C) += simple-mfd-i2c.o
> > > > obj-$(CONFIG_MFD_INTEL_M10_BMC) += intel-m10-bmc.o
> > > >
> > > > obj-$(CONFIG_MFD_AHC1EC0) += ahc1ec0.o
> > > > +obj-$(CONFIG_MFD_AHC1EC0_HWMON) += ahc1ec0-hwmon.o
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/mfd/ahc1ec0-hwmon.c b/drivers/mfd/ahc1ec0-hwmon.c
> > > > new file mode 100644
> > > > index 000000000000..3e493b040b4a
> > > > --- /dev/null
> > > > +++ b/drivers/mfd/ahc1ec0-hwmon.c
> > > > @@ -0,0 +1,1514 @@
> > > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> > > > +/*****************************************************************************
> > > > + * Copyright (c) 2018, Advantech Automation Corp.
> > >
> > > You can't just lift a whole driver from downstream code and send it to
> > > the mailing list as-is.
> > Could you elaborate more about which part should be fixed, and how it
> > should look like?
>
> Frankly, no.
>
> I would expect a contributor of a several thousand line patch-set to
> at least read the documentation and adhere to it prior to anyone
> conducting a full review. Simply plucking a very old driver set from
> a BSP kernel and dumping it on the upstream mailing list is not the
> way to gain the right kind of attention.
>
> At the very least (this is not an exhaustive list);
>
> - all of the copyrights need to be up-to-date
> - the drivers need to be located in their correct subsystems
> - any internal references/comment headers need to be removed
> - licences should be compatible with upstreaming
> - hacks removed
> - builds without errors or warnings
> - checkpatch.pl passed
> - submission should tick all of the boxes in SubmittingPatches
> - removal of changelogs/versions
> - this is the first version as far as the kernel is concerned
Also spell-check. Literally the 2nd line:
config MFD_AHC1EC0_HWMON
tristate "Advantech EC Hareware Monitor Function"
I don't know what Hareware is, but is sounds fast! ;)
> > > > + * THIS IS AN UNPUBLISHED WORK CONTAINING CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY
> > > > + * INFORMATION WHICH IS THE PROPERTY OF ADVANTECH AUTOMATION CORP.
> > > > + *
> > > > + * ANY DISCLOSURE, USE, OR REPRODUCTION, WITHOUT WRITTEN AUTHORIZATION FROM
> > > > + * ADVANTECH AUTOMATION CORP., IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
> > > > + *****************************************************************************
> > >
> > > This warning is in contradiction to the licence you are proposing.
> > >
>
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