[PATCH 2/5] input: misc: Add IBM Operation Panel driver
Joel Stanley
joel at jms.id.au
Tue Sep 1 15:58:12 AEST 2020
On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 at 16:12, Eddie James <eajames at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Add a driver to get the button events from the panel and provide
> them to userspace with the input subsystem. The panel is
> connected with I2C and controls the bus, so the driver registers
> as an I2C slave device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eddie James <eajames at linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 1 +
> drivers/input/misc/Kconfig | 10 ++
> drivers/input/misc/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/input/misc/ibm-panel.c | 186 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 4 files changed, 198 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 drivers/input/misc/ibm-panel.c
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index a9fd08e9cd54..077cc79ad7fd 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -8283,6 +8283,7 @@ M: Eddie James <eajames at linux.ibm.com>
> L: linux-input at vger.kernel.org
> S: Maintained
> F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/ibm,op-panel.yaml
> +F: drivers/input/misc/ibm-panel.c
>
> IBM Power 842 compression accelerator
> M: Haren Myneni <haren at us.ibm.com>
> diff --git a/drivers/input/misc/Kconfig b/drivers/input/misc/Kconfig
> index 362e8a01980c..88fb465a18b8 100644
> --- a/drivers/input/misc/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/input/misc/Kconfig
> @@ -708,6 +708,16 @@ config INPUT_ADXL34X_SPI
> To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
> module will be called adxl34x-spi.
>
> +config INPUT_IBM_PANEL
> + tristate "IBM Operation Panel driver"
> + depends on I2C_SLAVE || COMPILE_TEST
> + help
> + Supports the IBM Operation Panel as an input device. The panel is a
> + controller attached to the system with some buttons and an LCD display
> + that allows someone with physical access to the system to perform
> + various administrative tasks. This driver only supports the part of
> + the controller that sends commands to the system.
Is this always attached via a service processor/bmc? If so, mention it
here so people know there's no point enabling it on a host/distro
kernel.
I assume you're implementing the protocol correctly. If you have a
link to a specification then include that in the file.
The code looks okay to me.
Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>
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