Re: [char-misc-next] mei: add device type

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Jul 28 2020 - 11:54:19 EST


On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 06:25:46PM +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> From: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Some of the device heads are not generic and have
> specific purpose, we need to announce it to the user space
> so it can detect and correct device node via matching
> attributes.
>
> Generic devices are marked as 'mei' while special
> purpose their own names. Currently we are adding
> 'itouch' string for Intel IPTS devices.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/misc/mei/hw-me.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> drivers/misc/mei/hw-me.h | 5 +++++
> drivers/misc/mei/hw-txe.c | 1 +
> drivers/misc/mei/main.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/misc/mei/mei_dev.h | 4 ++++
> drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c | 8 ++++----
> 6 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

No Documentation/ABI/ update for this new sysfs file?

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