[PATCH 0/2] sb_edac: i2c_imc staging submission prep

[Andy Lutomirski]

I'd like to submit my i2c_imc driver to -staging, but the sb_edac
driver is currently squatting on my pci id :) sb_edac is a strange
beast: it uses registers from several PCI devcies, but the one that
it registers with the driver core is the SMBUS controller.

This trivial series moves sb_edac's PCI ids to pci_ids.h (they're
not exclusive to the EDAC hardware) and changes the PCI ID that is
used to detect the EDAC hardware.

I think that i2c_imc is a good staging candidate: the driver is IMO
quite clean, the hardware is very common, and I know of some users
(unrelated to me!) that use it for development, but it's not yet
acceptable as a real driver.  In particular, it needs confirmation
from Intel as to whether it handshakes correctly with BIOS.  In the
mean time, it's perfectly safe to use *if you know that your system
isn't doing something special with its DIMM SMBUS registers*.

I have reason to believe that I may be able to get a information
or a review from the right people at Intel in a couple of months,
and I suspect that some people in the NV-DIMM community would be
interested in this stuff.

I realize that the timing is a bit awkward here.  These patches have
been floating around for almost a year.  I'd be okay with them going
in for 3.17 or 3.18.  If I understand correctly, the deadline for
staging drivers is much later than the merge window, but I don't
want to submit the i2c_imc driver itself to staging until these prep
patches are in.

Andy Lutomirski (2):
  Move Intel SNB device ids from sb_edac to pci_ids.h
  sb_edac: Claim a different PCI device

 drivers/edac/sb_edac.c  | 32 +-------------------------------
 include/linux/pci_ids.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

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