[PATCH] drivers/misc: add Aspeed LPC snoop driver

[Joel Stanley]

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 5:16 AM, Rob Lippert <rlippert at google.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 8:25 PM, Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au> wrote:
>> Hello Rob,
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 7:23 AM, Robert Lippert <roblip at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This driver enables the LPC snoop hardware on the ASPEED BMC
>>> which generates an interrupt upon every write to an I/O port
>>> by the host.
>>>
>>> This is typically used to monitor BIOS boot progress by listening
>>> to well-known debug port 80h.
>>>
>>> The functionality in this commit just saves all snooped values
>>> to a circular 2K buffer in the kernel, subsequent commits can
>>> act on the values to do things with them.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>
>>
>> The driver looks okay to me. I can stage it in the OpenBMC kernel tree
>> while we get it reviewed upstream.
>>
>> Can you re-send to the upstream mailing lists so it gets reviewed
>> there. You will need to include a device tree binding document too
>> (something to put in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/).
>
> What is the proper upstream mailing list for this?  patman didn't list
> any mailing lists...

Yeah, get_maintainers.pl only suggested lkml. cc lkml I think.

I'm not sure if we want to put these drivers in misc, or if we want to
use something like drivers/soc/aspeed.

Arnd, Greg, do you have any suggestions here?

> The aspeed-lpc-ctrl that I used as a reference has no bindings in
> upstream, was that intentional or oversight?

That was an oversight.

Cheers,

Joel