[PATCH v2 0/1] misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC)

Bryant G. Ly bryantly at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Apr 26 07:32:56 AEST 2018


Steven Royer had previously attempted to upstream this
driver two years ago, but never got the chance to address
the concerns from Greg Kroah-Hartman.

The thread with the initial upstream is:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/16/918

I have addressed the following:

Version 1:
- Documentation
- Use of dev_dbg instead of pr_dbg
- Change to misc class
- Fixed memory barrier usages
- Addressed styling, checkpatch, renaming of functions
- General fixes to the driver to make it more inline with
  existing upstream drivers.

Version 2:
- Changed Documentation from .rst to .txt and addressed
  small changes in documentation per request from Randy.
- Clarified Documentation based upon Linus Walleij's
  comments
- Fixed kbuild warning in regards to unititialized use of
  rc

Bryant G. Ly (1):
  misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC)

 Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt  |    1 +
 Documentation/misc-devices/ibmvmc.rst |  226 +++
 MAINTAINERS                           |    6 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/hvcall.h     |    1 +
 drivers/misc/Kconfig                  |   14 +
 drivers/misc/Makefile                 |    1 +
 drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c                 | 2418 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/misc/ibmvmc.h                 |  209 +++
 8 files changed, 2876 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/misc-devices/ibmvmc.rst
 create mode 100644 drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/misc/ibmvmc.h

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