From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752107AbeDMQZO (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2018 12:25:14 -0400 Received: from mga14.intel.com ([192.55.52.115]:18530 "EHLO mga14.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750885AbeDMQZM (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2018 12:25:12 -0400 X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.48,446,1517904000"; d="scan'208";a="220216714" Subject: Re: [PATCH ipmi/kcs_bmc v1] ipmi: add an NPCM7xx KCS BMC driver To: minyard@acm.org, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: joel@jms.id.au, avifishman70@gmail.com References: <1521723015-19142-1-git-send-email-haiyue.wang@linux.intel.com> <4a878c46-9451-8ee6-c067-955a0bd651d0@acm.org> From: "Wang, Haiyue" Message-ID: <9fffe8eb-5e9b-db84-be9e-fa415d52a88b@linux.intel.com> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 00:25:11 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4a878c46-9451-8ee6-c067-955a0bd651d0@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Thanks, Corey. BR, Haiyue On 2018-04-13 23:56, Corey Minyard wrote: > On 03/22/2018 07:50 AM, Haiyue Wang wrote: >> This driver exposes the Keyboard Controller Style (KCS) interface on >> Novoton NPCM7xx SoCs as a character device. Such SOCs are commonly used >> as a BaseBoard Management Controller (BMC) on a server board, and KCS >> interface is commonly used to perform the in-band IPMI communication >> between the server and its BMC. > > Sorry, I missed this.  It is queued for the next kernel release. > > Thanks, > > -corey