Re: [PATCH v4 7/9] mfd: ioc3: Add driver for SGI IOC3 chip

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Fri Aug 09 2019 - 17:22:28 EST


On Fri, 9 Aug 2019 12:32:29 +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> SGI IOC3 chip has integrated ethernet, keyboard and mouse interface.
> It also supports connecting a SuperIO chip for serial and parallel
> interfaces. IOC3 is used inside various SGI systemboards and add-on
> cards with different equipped external interfaces.
>
> Support for ethernet and serial interfaces were implemented inside
> the network driver. This patchset moves out the not network related
> parts to a new MFD driver, which takes care of card detection,
> setup of platform devices and interrupt distribution for the subdevices.
>
> Serial portion: Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@xxxxxxx>

There are a lot of changes in the ethernet part which are not easy to
explain by the introduction of the other MFD parts.. Could you possibly
break this change up into smaller chunks?

Also please don't use stdint types in the kernel, please try checkpatch
to catch coding style issues.