[RFC PATCH linux dev-4.7 0/6] iBT interface changes

[Joel Stanley]

Hi Cedric,

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Cédric Le Goater <clg at kaod.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This patchset introduces a couple of changes on the driver for the iBT
> interface on Aspeed SOCs. These were suggested by mainline and have
> some conficts with the OpenBMC userspace. The most important are name
> changes, which impact the btbridge daemon, but nothing is requiring a
> redesign of the stack.
>
> The previous driver is reverted and and reincluded in its mainline
> form. So you should mostly check patch 4 and quickly 5,6. The merge
> in openbmc kernel can wait mainline's green light I think.

Congratulations on getting the bt driver upstream. Another one crossed
off the list (https://github.com/openbmc/linux/wiki).

What are your thoughts on integrating the change in the OpenBMC tree?

With the release of v4.8 around the corner I was thinking we could
move to a dev-4.8 tree, and move to your driver then. This would give
us a chance to synchronise all of the patches with their upstream
versions (gpio, watchdog, bt, pinmux).

Alternative proposals are welcome.

Cheers,

Joel

> You can find the btbridge changes:
>
>      https://github.com/legoater/btbridge
>
> Thanks,
>
> C.
>
>
> Alistair Popple (1):
>   misc: Add Aspeed BT IPMI BMC driver
>
> Cédric Le Goater (5):
>   Revert "misc: Add Aspeed BT IPMI host driver"
>   ARM: aspeed: remove previous definitions in default config
>   ARM: dts: aspeed: remove previous iBT definitions
>   ARM: aspeed: Add defconfigs for CONFIG_ASPEED_BT_IPMI_BMC
>   ARM: dts: aspeed: Enable BT IPMI BMC device
>
>  .../bindings/char/ipmi/aspeed,bt-bmc.txt           |  19 +
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-g4.dtsi                   |   2 +-
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-g5.dtsi                   |   2 +-
>  arch/arm/configs/aspeed_g4_defconfig               |   3 +-
>  arch/arm/configs/aspeed_g5_defconfig               |   3 +-
>  drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig                          |   7 +
>  drivers/char/ipmi/Makefile                         |   1 +
>  drivers/char/ipmi/bt-bmc.c                         | 475 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/misc/Kconfig                               |   5 -
>  drivers/misc/Makefile                              |   1 -
>  drivers/misc/bt-host.c                             | 427 ------------------
>  include/uapi/linux/Kbuild                          |   2 +-
>  include/uapi/linux/{bt-host.h => bt-bmc.h}         |  12 +-
>  13 files changed, 515 insertions(+), 444 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/char/ipmi/aspeed,bt-bmc.txt
>  create mode 100644 drivers/char/ipmi/bt-bmc.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/misc/bt-host.c
>  rename include/uapi/linux/{bt-host.h => bt-bmc.h} (55%)
>
> --
> 2.7.4
>