[PATCH v1 1/1] misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver

[Bryant G. Ly]

On 4/23/18 2:53 PM, Greg KH wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 11:38:18AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On 04/23/18 07:46, Bryant G. Ly wrote:
>>> This driver is a logical device which provides an
>>> interface between the hypervisor and a management
>>> partition.
>>>
>>> This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual
>>> Management Channel Virtual Adapter on the PowerVM
>>> platform. It provides both request/response and
>>> async message support through the /dev/ibmvmc node.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Steven Royer <seroyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Adam Reznechek <adreznec at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>> Tested-by: Taylor Jakobson <tjakobs at us.ibm.com>
>>> Tested-by: Brad Warrum <bwarrum at us.ibm.com>
>>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
>>> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>>> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
>>> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
>>> ---
>>>  Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt  |    1 +
>>>  Documentation/misc-devices/ibmvmc.txt |  161 +++
>>>  MAINTAINERS                           |    6 +
>>>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/hvcall.h     |    1 +
>>>  drivers/misc/Kconfig                  |   14 +
>>>  drivers/misc/Makefile                 |    1 +
>>>  drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c                 | 2415 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  drivers/misc/ibmvmc.h                 |  209 +++
>>>  8 files changed, 2808 insertions(+)
>>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/misc-devices/ibmvmc.txt
>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c
>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/misc/ibmvmc.h
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/misc-devices/ibmvmc.txt b/Documentation/misc-devices/ibmvmc.txt
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 0000000..bae1064
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/Documentation/misc-devices/ibmvmc.txt
> Aren't we doing new documentation in .rst format instead of .txt?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
I will convert to .rst and fix the comments from Randy in the next version.

Thanks, 

Bryant