[PATCH] ipmi: bt-bmc: Use a regmap for register access

Corey Minyard minyard at acm.org
Mon Feb 20 05:35:16 PST 2017


On 02/19/2017 10:45 PM, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
> Hi Cory,
>
> On Tue, 2016-12-06 at 16:02 +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
>> [ this is a resend bc of some mailing list issues]
>>
>> On 12/06/2016 03:57 AM, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
>>> The registers for the bt-bmc device live under the Aspeed LPC
>>> controller. Devicetree bindings have recently been introduced for the
>>> LPC controller where the "host" portion of the LPC register space is
>>> described as a syscon device. Future devicetrees describing the bt-bmc
>>> device should nest its node under the appropriate "simple-mfd", "syscon"
>>> compatible node.
>>>
>>> This change allows the bt-bmc driver to function with both syscon and
>>> non-syscon- based devicetree descriptions by always using a regmap for
>>> register access, either retrieved from the parent syscon device or
>>> instantiated if none exists.
>>>
>>> The patch has been tested on an OpenPOWER Palmetto machine, successfully
>>> booting, rebooting and powering down the host.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au>
>> It would be nice to have an example of the associated binding.
>> I did not see it. A part from that :
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg at kaod.org>
>
> Will this make it into 4.11?

I thought you were doing a v2 with a few little fixes.  Get it to me 
quickly, if you can.

-corey

> Cheers,
>
> Andrew





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