Re: [PATCH 0/4] add device drivers for Siemens Industrial PCs

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu Mar 04 2021 - 05:21:19 EST


On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 9:29 AM Henning Schild
<henning.schild@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
>
> But the idea here is to share early, and hopefully not fail early.

I have given a few comments here and there, so please check the entire
series and address them in _all_ similar locations. As I have noticed,
I have different approach about P2SB code, I have to give the series a
dust and see if you can utilize it.

I would like to be Cc'ed on the next version.


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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko