From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: "Maximilian Luz" <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Hans de Goede" <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
"Mark Gross" <mgross@linux.intel.com>,
"Andy Shevchenko" <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
"Barnabás Pőcze" <pobrn@protonmail.com>,
"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>, "Rob Herring" <robh@kernel.org>,
"Jiri Slaby" <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
"Len Brown" <lenb@kernel.org>,
"Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
"Masahiro Yamada" <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
"Michal Marek" <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
"Blaž Hrastnik" <blaz@mxxn.io>,
"Dorian Stoll" <dorian.stoll@tmsp.io>,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Add support for Microsoft Surface System Aggregator Module
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2020 09:32:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <X8yXHvWcBFGu1PIo@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201206070705.GA686270@unreal>
On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 09:07:05AM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 10:26:31PM +0100, Maximilian Luz wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Here is version two of the Surface System Aggregator Module (SAM/SSAM)
> > driver series, adding initial support for the embedded controller on 5th
> > and later generation Microsoft Surface devices. Initial support includes
> > the ACPI interface to the controller, via which battery and thermal
> > information is provided on some of these devices.
> >
> > The previous version and cover letter detailing what this series is
> > about can be found at
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/platform-driver-x86/20201115192143.21571-1-luzmaximilian@gmail.com/
> >
> > This patch-set can also be found at the following repository and
> > reference, if you prefer to look at a kernel tree instead of these
> > emails:
> >
> > https://github.com/linux-surface/kernel tags/s/surface-aggregator/v2
> >
> > Thank you all for the feedback to v1, I hope I have addressed all
> > comments.
>
>
> I think that it is too far fetched to attempt and expose UAPI headers
> for some obscure char device that we are all know won't be around in
> a couple of years from now due to the nature of how this embedded world
> works.
No, that's not ok, we do this for loads of devices out there. If there
is a device that wants to be supported for Linux, and a developer that
wants to support it, we will take it.
> More on that, the whole purpose of proposed interface is to debug and
> not intended to be used by any user space code.
I thought that debugfs was going to be used for most of the debugging
code, or has that changed in newer versions of this patchset?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-06 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-03 21:26 [PATCH v2 0/9] Add support for Microsoft Surface System Aggregator Module Maximilian Luz
2020-12-03 21:26 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] platform/surface: Add Surface Aggregator subsystem Maximilian Luz
2020-12-08 13:01 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-08 14:37 ` Maximilian Luz
2020-12-08 14:43 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-08 14:54 ` Maximilian Luz
2020-12-03 21:26 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] platform/surface: aggregator: Add control packet allocation caching Maximilian Luz
2020-12-15 13:42 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-03 21:26 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] platform/surface: aggregator: Add event item " Maximilian Luz
2020-12-15 13:44 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-03 21:26 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] platform/surface: aggregator: Add trace points Maximilian Luz
2020-12-15 14:20 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-03 21:26 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] platform/surface: aggregator: Add error injection capabilities Maximilian Luz
2020-12-15 14:43 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-03 21:26 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] platform/surface: aggregator: Add dedicated bus and device type Maximilian Luz
2020-12-15 14:49 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-15 14:50 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-03 21:26 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] docs: driver-api: Add Surface Aggregator subsystem documentation Maximilian Luz
2020-12-15 16:25 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-03 21:26 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] platform/surface: Add Surface Aggregator user-space interface Maximilian Luz
2020-12-15 16:35 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-15 20:00 ` Maximilian Luz
2020-12-03 21:26 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] platform/surface: Add Surface ACPI Notify driver Maximilian Luz
2020-12-15 17:18 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-06 7:07 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] Add support for Microsoft Surface System Aggregator Module Leon Romanovsky
2020-12-06 8:32 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2020-12-06 8:35 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-12-06 11:13 ` Maximilian Luz
2020-12-06 8:41 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-06 8:56 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-12-06 10:04 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-06 10:33 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-12-06 10:41 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-06 11:41 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-12-06 13:43 ` Maximilian Luz
2020-12-06 10:51 ` Maximilian Luz
2020-12-06 8:58 ` Blaž Hrastnik
2020-12-06 9:06 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-12-06 10:33 ` Maximilian Luz
2020-12-06 10:43 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-06 10:56 ` Maximilian Luz
2020-12-06 11:30 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-12-06 13:27 ` Maximilian Luz
2020-12-06 15:58 ` Maximilian Luz
2020-12-07 6:15 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-12-07 8:49 ` Hans de Goede
2020-12-07 9:12 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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