Re: [GIT PULL] FSI updates round 4 (last) for 4.19

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Jul 27 2018 - 05:02:53 EST


On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 10:10:57AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Hi Greg !
>
> This adds a few fixes for things reported since the last merge,
> and the latch batch of changes pending for FSI for 4.19.
>
> That batch is a rather mechanical conversion of the misc devices
> into proper char devices.
>
> The misc devices were ill suited, the minor space for them is
> limited and we can have a lot of chips in a system creating FSI
> devices.
>
> This also allows us to better control (and fix) object lifetime
> getting rid of the bad devm_kzalloc() of the structures containing
> the devices etc...
>
> Finally, we add a chardev to the core FSI that provides raw CFAM
> access to FSI slaves as a replacement for the current "raw" binary
> sysfs file which will be ultimately deprecated and removed.
>
> Thanks !
> Ben.
>
> The following changes since commit 0a213777d1dd879092225a7aa847b6e9b3a1c267:
>
> fsi: Add support for device-tree provided chip IDs (2018-07-23 16:27:32 +1000)
>
> are available in the Git repository at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/linux-fsi.git tags/fsi-updates-2018-07-27

Pulled in and pushed out, thanks.

greg k-h