[PATCH linux dev-5.4 v1] hwmon: (pmbus) Add a PMBUS_NO_CAPABILITY platform data flag

[Joel Stanley]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 at 07:08, <Lulu_Su at wistron.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, but this branch has been used for our platform for a while.

Are you merging and testing stable updates into this branch?

If so, it would be good if you could contribute your changes to the
community maintained repository.

If not, then I suggest you look into this.

>
> Andrew Jeffery suggested that we backport this commit.
> (https://github.com/ibm-openbmc/openbmc/pull/204#:~:text=There%27s%20proper%20support%20for%20avoiding%20the%20CAPABILITY%20register%20upstream.%20Please%20backport%20https%3A//git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/pmbus_core.c%3Fh%3Dv5.16%2Drc4%26id%3De5befc024cb45%20and%20implement%20the%20patch%20in%20terms%20of%20that.)
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> Could you agree to backport this commit? Thanks.

I have backported this commit and pushed it to dev-5.4.

Be warned that no one is maintaining this old branch, so if you are
shipping firmware based off it, I would recommend finding someone to
step forward to help maintain it.

Cheers,

Joel

>
> >Hello,
> >
> >I note that you're targeting v5.4 for this patch. I don't know anyone working on maintaining this kernel tree in the openbmc project.
> >
> >I suggest you move your platform to the latest LTS, v5.15. This patch is already present in that tree.
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