Re: [PATCH V5 0/2] x86: IOSF: Add loadable module support

From: Li, Aubrey
Date: Mon Mar 03 2014 - 02:01:56 EST


Hi David,

I'm probably too late to catch this thread. Just one question, what's
the relationship between
arch/x86/kernel/iosf_mbi.c
and
drivers/platform/x86/intel_baytrail.c

Thanks,
-Aubrey

On 2014/3/1 10:40, David E. Box wrote:
> From: "David E. Box" <david.e.box@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch series adds missing functionalty that mostly affected loadable
> modules.
>
> The first patch adds dummy functions to allow drivers not completely
> dependant on the IOSF MBI driver to compile on systems that don't have it.
>
> The second makes MBI driver built in.
>
> Changes from V4:
>
> - Put back Kconfig prompt for IOSF_MBI.
>
> Changes from V3:
>
> - Code is agreed to be small enough to not warrant forcing for
> non-EXPERT only
>
> Changes from V2:
>
> - Remove non linux style externs from iosf_mbi.h
>
> Changes from V1:
>
> - Force default y for non-EXPERT to allow easier custom configuration
> as suggested by hpa <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> - Add WARN() to dummy functions, other than iosf_mbi_available(), to
> signal incorrect use as suggested by Alan <gnomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Also return EPERM in these functions
> - Splits single patch into two patch series
>
> David E. Box (2):
> x86: IOSF: add dummy functions for loadable modules
> x86: IOSF: Change IOSF_MBI Kconfig to default y
>
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 7 ++-----
> arch/x86/include/asm/iosf_mbi.h | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/kernel/iosf_mbi.c | 6 ++++++
> 3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>

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