Re: [PATCH ipmi/kcs_bmc v1] ipmi: add an NPCM7xx KCS BMC driver

From: Wang, Haiyue
Date: Fri Apr 13 2018 - 12:25:30 EST


Thanks, Corey.

BR,

Haiyue


On 2018-04-13 23:56, Corey Minyard wrote:
On 03/22/2018 07:50 AM, Haiyue Wang wrote:
This driver exposes the Keyboard Controller Style (KCS) interface on
Novoton NPCM7xx SoCs as a character device. Such SOCs are commonly used
as a BaseBoard Management Controller (BMC) on a server board, and KCS
interface is commonly used to perform the in-band IPMI communication
between the server and its BMC.

Sorry, I missed this. It is queued for the next kernel release.

Thanks,

-corey