From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932177AbcF3MhB (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2016 08:37:01 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([103.22.144.67]:41755 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751900AbcF3Mgn (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2016 08:36:43 -0400 X-powerpc-patch-notification: thanks X-powerpc-patch-commit: 43a1dd9b5fc64184e578ac1570d016d2862e00b2 In-Reply-To: <1467171519-19882-3-git-send-email-sjitindarsingh@gmail.com> To: Suraj Jitindar Singh , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org From: Michael Ellerman Cc: robh@kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulus@samba.org, sjitindarsingh@gmail.com Subject: Re: [V5, 3/3] powerpc/drivers: Add driver for operator panel on FSP machines Message-Id: <3rgJvF1P6tz9syq@ozlabs.org> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 22:36:40 +1000 (AEST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2016-29-06 at 03:38:39 UTC, Suraj Jitindar Singh wrote: > Implement new character device driver to allow access from user space > to the operator panel display present on IBM Power Systems machines > with FSPs. > > This will allow status information to be presented on the display which > is visible to a user. > > The driver implements a character buffer which a user can read/write > by accessing the device (/dev/op_panel). This buffer is then displayed on > the operator panel display. Any attempt to write past the last character > position will have no effect and attempts to write more characters than > the size of the display will be truncated. The device may only be accessed > by a single process at a time. > > Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh > Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan Applied to powerpc next, thanks. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/43a1dd9b5fc64184e578ac1570 cheers