[PATCH arm/aspeed/ast2500 v5 1/2] ipmi: add a KCS IPMI BMC driver

[Wang, Haiyue]

On 2018-02-02 21:52, Corey Minyard wrote:
> On 02/01/2018 08:16 PM, Haiyue Wang wrote:
>> ---
>> v4->v5
>> - Fix -Wdiscarded-qualifiers 'const' compile warning.
>> - Fix size_t printk compile error.
>>
>> v3->v4
>> - Change to accept WRITE_START any time.
>>
>> v2->v3
>>
>> - Update the KCS phase state machine.
>> - Fix the race condition of read/write.
>>
>> v1->v2
>>
>> - Divide the driver into two parts, one handles the BMC KCS IPMI 2.0 
>> state;
>>    the other handles the BMC KCS controller such as AST2500 IO 
>> accessing.
>> - Use the spin lock APIs to handle the device file operations and BMC 
>> chip
>>    IRQ inferface for accessing the same KCS BMC data structure.
>> - Enhanced the phases handling of the KCS BMC.
>> - Unified the IOCTL definition for IPMI BMC, it will be used by KCS 
>> and BT.
>>
>>
>> Provides a device driver for the KCS (Keyboard Controller Style)
>> IPMI interface which meets the requirement of the BMC (Baseboard
>> Management Controllers) side for handling the IPMI request from
>> host system software.
>
> Ok, this is in my queue, it will go into next once 4.16-rc1 comes out, 
> then into
> 4.16 if all goes well.
>
> Thanks, for your patience and work on this.
>
*Really appreciate your time on the code review, I really learned more, 
thank you.  :-)

-- Haiyue
*
> -corey