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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] add device drivers for Siemens Industrial PCs
To:     Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-leds@vger.kernel.org,
        platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org
Cc:     Srikanth Krishnakar <skrishnakar@gmail.com>,
        Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
        Gerd Haeussler <gerd.haeussler.ext@siemens.com>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
        Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>,
        Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
        Enrico Weigelt <lkml@metux.net>
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From:   Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
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Date:   Wed, 7 Apr 2021 13:36:40 +0200
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Hi,

On 3/29/21 7:49 PM, Henning Schild wrote:
> changes since v2:
> 
> - remove "simatic-ipc" prefix from LED names
> - fix style issues found in v2, mainly LED driver
> - fix OEM specific dmi code, and remove magic numbers
> - more "simatic_ipc" name prefixing
> - improved pmc quirk code using callbacks
> 
> changes since v1:
> 
> - fixed lots of style issues found in v1
>   - (debug) printing
>   - header ordering
> - fixed license issues GPLv2 and SPDX in all files
> - module_platform_driver instead of __init __exit
> - wdt simplifications cleanup
> - lots of fixes in wdt driver, all that was found in v1
> - fixed dmi length in dmi helper
> - changed LED names to allowed ones
> - move led driver to simple/
> - switched pmc_atom to dmi callback with global variable
> 
> --
> 
> This series adds support for watchdogs and leds of several x86 devices
> from Siemens.
> 
> It is structured with a platform driver that mainly does identification
> of the machines. It might trigger loading of the actual device drivers
> by attaching devices to the platform bus.
> 
> The identification is vendor specific, parsing a special binary DMI
> entry. The implementation of that platform identification is applied on
> pmc_atom clock quirks in the final patch.
> 
> It is all structured in a way that we can easily add more devices and
> more platform drivers later. Internally we have some more code for
> hardware monitoring, more leds, watchdogs etc. This will follow some
> day.

IT seems there still is significant discussion surrounding the LED and watchdog
drivers which use patch 1/4 as parent-driver.

I'm going to hold of on merging 1/4 and 4/4 until there is more consensus
surrounding this series.

Regards,

Hans


> 
> Henning Schild (4):
>   platform/x86: simatic-ipc: add main driver for Siemens devices
>   leds: simatic-ipc-leds: add new driver for Siemens Industial PCs
>   watchdog: simatic-ipc-wdt: add new driver for Siemens Industrial PCs
>   platform/x86: pmc_atom: improve critclk_systems matching for Siemens
>     PCs
> 
>  drivers/leds/Kconfig                          |   3 +
>  drivers/leds/Makefile                         |   3 +
>  drivers/leds/simple/Kconfig                   |  11 +
>  drivers/leds/simple/Makefile                  |   2 +
>  drivers/leds/simple/simatic-ipc-leds.c        | 202 ++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig                  |  12 +
>  drivers/platform/x86/Makefile                 |   3 +
>  drivers/platform/x86/pmc_atom.c               |  57 +++--
>  drivers/platform/x86/simatic-ipc.c            | 169 ++++++++++++++
>  drivers/watchdog/Kconfig                      |  11 +
>  drivers/watchdog/Makefile                     |   1 +
>  drivers/watchdog/simatic-ipc-wdt.c            | 215 ++++++++++++++++++
>  .../platform_data/x86/simatic-ipc-base.h      |  29 +++
>  include/linux/platform_data/x86/simatic-ipc.h |  72 ++++++
>  14 files changed, 769 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/leds/simple/Kconfig
>  create mode 100644 drivers/leds/simple/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 drivers/leds/simple/simatic-ipc-leds.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/simatic-ipc.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/watchdog/simatic-ipc-wdt.c
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/platform_data/x86/simatic-ipc-base.h
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/platform_data/x86/simatic-ipc.h
>