Hi, This is a continuation of the RFC we posted lasted month [1] which proposes a management driver for Microsemi's Switchtec line of PCI switches. This hardware is still looking to be used in the Open Compute Platform To make this entirely clear: the Switchtec products are compliant with the PCI specifications and are supported today with the standard in-kernel driver. However, these devices also expose a management endpoint on a separate PCI function address which can be used to perform some advanced operations. This is a driver for that function. See the patch for more information. Since the RFC, we've made the changes requested by Greg Kroah-Hartman and Keith Busch, and we've also fleshed out a number of features. We've added a couple of IOCTLs and sysfs attributes which are documented in the patch. Significant work has also been done on the userspace tool which is available under a GPL license at [2]. We've also had testing done by some of the interested parties. We hope to see this work included in either 4.11 or 4.12 assuming a smooth review process. The patch is based off of the v4.9 release. Thanks for your review, Logan [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-pci/msg56897.html [2] https://github.com/sbates130272/switchtec-user -- Changes since RFC: * Fixed incorrect use of the drive model as pointed out by Greg Kroah-Hartman * Used devm functions as suggested by Keith Busch * Added a handful of sysfs attributes to the switchtec class * Added a handful of IOCTLs to the switchtec device * A number of miscelaneous bug fixes -- Logan Gunthorpe (1): MicroSemi Switchtec management interface driver Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-switchtec | 96 ++ Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt | 1 + Documentation/switchtec.txt | 80 ++ MAINTAINERS | 11 + drivers/pci/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/pci/Makefile | 1 + drivers/pci/switch/Kconfig | 13 + drivers/pci/switch/Makefile | 1 + drivers/pci/switch/switchtec.c | 1320 +++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/pci/switch/switchtec.h | 266 +++++ include/uapi/linux/switchtec_ioctl.h | 129 +++ 11 files changed, 1919 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-switchtec create mode 100644 Documentation/switchtec.txt create mode 100644 drivers/pci/switch/Kconfig create mode 100644 drivers/pci/switch/Makefile create mode 100644 drivers/pci/switch/switchtec.c create mode 100644 drivers/pci/switch/switchtec.h create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/switchtec_ioctl.h -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
