Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] MFD: intel_pmt: Support non-PMT capabilities

[Lee Jones]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2021, Greg KH wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 08:54:45AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Sep 2021, David E. Box wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 2021-09-27 at 19:36 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 02:30:04PM -0700, David E. Box wrote:
> > > > > Intel Platform Monitoring Technology (PMT) support is indicated by presence
> > > > > of an Intel defined PCIe DVSEC structure with a PMT ID. However DVSEC
> > > > > structures may also be used by Intel to indicate support for other
> > > > > capabilities unrelated to PMT.  OOBMSM is a device that can have both PMT
> > > > > and non-PMT capabilities. In order to support these capabilities it is
> > > > > necessary to modify the intel_pmt driver to handle the creation of platform
> > > > > devices more generically.
> > > > 
> > > > I said this on your other driver submission, but why are you turning a
> > > > PCIe device into a set of platform devices and craming it into the MFD
> > > > subsystem?
> > > > 
> > > > PCIe devices are NOT platform devices.
> > > 
> > > But they *are* used to create platform devices when the PCIe device is multi-functional, which is
> > > what intel_pmt is.
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Why not use the auxiliary bus for this thing if you have individual
> > > > drivers that need to "bind" to the different attributes that this single
> > > > PCIe device is exporting.
> > > 
> > > It wasn't clear in the beginning how this would evolve. MFD made sense for the PMT (platform
> > > monitoring technology) driver. PMT has 3 related but individually enumerable devices on the same IP,
> > > like lpss. But the same IP is now being used for other features too like SDSi. We could work on
> > > converting this to the auxiliary bus and then covert the cell drivers.
> > 
> > I see this as subsequent work.  It should not affect this submission.
> > 
> > FWIW, I still plan to review this set for inclusion into MFD.
> 
> That's fine, but as the add-on submission that builds on top of this is
> a broken mess (which is what caused me to have to review this series), I
> can't recommend that be taken yet as it needs work to prevent systems
> from doing bad things.

Understood.  Deferred.

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