Date:   Wed, 29 Dec 2021 10:18:37 +0000
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To:     Quan Nguyen <quan@os.amperecomputing.com>
Cc:     Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>, Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 8/9] misc: smpro-misc: Add Ampere's Altra SMpro misc
 driver
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References: <20211224041352.29405-1-quan@os.amperecomputing.com>
 <20211224041352.29405-9-quan@os.amperecomputing.com>
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On Fri, 24 Dec 2021, Quan Nguyen wrote:

> This commit adds driver support for accessing various information
> reported by Ampere's SMpro co-processor such as Boot Progress and
> other miscellaneous data.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Quan Nguyen <quan@os.amperecomputing.com>
> ---
> Change in v6:
>   + First introduced in v6 [Quan]
> 
>  drivers/mfd/smpro-mfd.c   |   1 +

Please pull all of these patches out.

There are no build dependencies here.

>  drivers/misc/Kconfig      |   7 ++
>  drivers/misc/Makefile     |   1 +
>  drivers/misc/smpro-misc.c | 177 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 186 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/smpro-misc.c
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/smpro-mfd.c b/drivers/mfd/smpro-mfd.c
> index a7cd64bf9eaa..5611dd30f8f4 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/smpro-mfd.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/smpro-mfd.c
> @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ static const struct regmap_config simple_word_regmap_config = {
>  static const struct mfd_cell smpro_devs[] = {
>  	MFD_CELL_NAME("smpro-hwmon"),
>  	MFD_CELL_NAME("smpro-errmon"),
> +	MFD_CELL_NAME("smpro-misc"),

Misc is a Linuxisum which are not allowed in DT.

What does this driver actually do?

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