RE: [char-misc-next] mei: add device type

2020-07-28 Thread Winkler, Tomas



> -Original Message-
> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 18:54
> To: Winkler, Tomas 
> Cc: Usyskin, Alexander ; linux-
> ker...@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [char-misc-next] mei: add device type
> 
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 06:25:46PM +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > From: Alexander Usyskin 
> >
> > Some of the device heads are not generic and have specific purpose, we
> > need to announce it to the user space so it can detect and correct
> > device node via matching attributes.
> >
> > Generic devices are marked as 'mei' while special purpose their own
> > names. Currently we are adding 'itouch' string for Intel IPTS devices.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin 
> > Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler 
> > ---
> >  drivers/misc/mei/hw-me.c   | 12 
> >  drivers/misc/mei/hw-me.h   |  5 +
> >  drivers/misc/mei/hw-txe.c  |  1 +
> >  drivers/misc/mei/main.c| 27 +++
> >  drivers/misc/mei/mei_dev.h |  4 
> >  drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c  |  8 
> >  6 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> No Documentation/ABI/ update for this new sysfs file?

Hmm, looks like I've forgot to 'git add' 
Thanks
Tomas



Re: [char-misc-next] mei: add device type

2020-07-28 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 06:25:46PM +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> From: Alexander Usyskin 
> 
> Some of the device heads are not generic and have
> specific purpose, we need to announce it to the user space
> so it can detect and correct device node via matching
> attributes.
> 
> Generic devices are marked as 'mei' while special
> purpose their own names. Currently we are adding
> 'itouch' string for Intel IPTS devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin 
> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler 
> ---
>  drivers/misc/mei/hw-me.c   | 12 
>  drivers/misc/mei/hw-me.h   |  5 +
>  drivers/misc/mei/hw-txe.c  |  1 +
>  drivers/misc/mei/main.c| 27 +++
>  drivers/misc/mei/mei_dev.h |  4 
>  drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c  |  8 
>  6 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

No Documentation/ABI/ update for this new sysfs file?

:(