[RFC PATCH 01/13] Intel(R) MEI Driver

[RFC PATCH 01/13] Intel(R) MEI Driver

[Oren Weil]

diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig
index b7980a8..0a54b26 100644
--- a/drivers/char/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig
@@ -1144,5 +1144,16 @@ config RAMOOPS
 	  This enables panic and oops messages to be logged to a circular
 	  buffer in RAM where it can be read back at some later point.
 
+config INTEL_MEI
+	tristate "Intel(R) Management Engine Interface (Intel(R) MEI)"
+	default m
+	depends on EXPERIMENTAL && X86
+	help
+	  If you have an Intel(R) ME chip in your system 
+	  say Yes to enable the Intel(R) Managment Engine interface.
+	  for more informaiton see
+	  <http://software.intel.com/en-us/manageability/>
+
+
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Re: [RFC PATCH 01/13] Intel(R) MEI Driver

[Randy Dunlap]

On 10 Feb 2011 01:54:57 -0800 Oren Weil wrote:

> diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig
> index b7980a8..0a54b26 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig
> @@ -1144,5 +1144,16 @@ config RAMOOPS
>  	  This enables panic and oops messages to be logged to a circular
>  	  buffer in RAM where it can be read back at some later point.
>  
> +config INTEL_MEI
> +	tristate "Intel(R) Management Engine Interface (Intel(R) MEI)"
> +	default m

Please don't enable random kconfig options.

> +	depends on EXPERIMENTAL && X86
> +	help
> +	  If you have an Intel(R) ME chip in your system 
> +	  say Yes to enable the Intel(R) Managment Engine interface.
> +	  for more informaiton see
> +	  <http://software.intel.com/en-us/manageability/>
> +
> +
>  endmenu

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Re: [RFC PATCH 01/13] Intel(R) MEI Driver

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 01:54:57AM -0800, Oren Weil wrote:
> diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig

Where is the description?

Where is the signed-off-by line?

> index b7980a8..0a54b26 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig
> @@ -1144,5 +1144,16 @@ config RAMOOPS
>  	  This enables panic and oops messages to be logged to a circular
>  	  buffer in RAM where it can be read back at some later point.
>  
> +config INTEL_MEI
> +	tristate "Intel(R) Management Engine Interface (Intel(R) MEI)"

What's with the (R) symbols everywhere?  The Linux kernel is not a place
for this.

> +	default m

No, this is not a valid default.

> +	depends on EXPERIMENTAL && X86
> +	help
> +	  If you have an Intel(R) ME chip in your system 

Trailing whitespace, which shows that you didn't take the simple time to
run your patches through scripts/checkpatch.pl, so why should we take
time to review them?

And you don't add a config option as your first patch, it does nothing
at this point in time for any code that is existing in the kernel.

greg k-h

RE: [RFC PATCH 01/13] Intel(R) MEI Driver

[Weil, Oren jer]

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Hi

1) For the review purpose we wanted to split the patches into files, so the
only way we found to do it is using "git diff", this is they there is not
signed-off-by line
Maybe I should have adding a description for every file, I can send another
mail with the descriptions, sorry for the mess.

2) "Intel(R) Management Engine Interface (Intel(R) MEI)" - is our official
name.

3) we ran checkpatch.pl on every file, this file my by skipped by mistake.


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From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@suse.de] 
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 20:01
To: Weil, Oren jer
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
david@woodhou.se; Woodhouse, David
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/13] Intel(R) MEI Driver

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 01:54:57AM -0800, Oren Weil wrote:
> diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig

Where is the description?

Where is the signed-off-by line?

> index b7980a8..0a54b26 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig
> @@ -1144,5 +1144,16 @@ config RAMOOPS
>  	  This enables panic and oops messages to be logged to a circular
>  	  buffer in RAM where it can be read back at some later point.
>  
> +config INTEL_MEI
> +	tristate "Intel(R) Management Engine Interface (Intel(R) MEI)"

What's with the (R) symbols everywhere?  The Linux kernel is not a place for
this.

> +	default m

No, this is not a valid default.

> +	depends on EXPERIMENTAL && X86
> +	help
> +	  If you have an Intel(R) ME chip in your system

Trailing whitespace, which shows that you didn't take the simple time to run
your patches through scripts/checkpatch.pl, so why should we take time to
review them?

And you don't add a config option as your first patch, it does nothing at
this point in time for any code that is existing in the kernel.

greg k-h

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RE: [RFC PATCH 01/13] Intel(R) MEI Driver

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 10:57 +0200, Weil, Oren jer wrote:
> 
> 1) For the review purpose we wanted to split the patches into files, so the
> only way we found to do it is using "git diff", this is they there is not
> signed-off-by line

So you type it manually, when you're setting an appropriate subject and
typing your coherent explanation of what's in each patch, and how it
fits together.

-- 
dwmw2

Re: [RFC PATCH 01/13] Intel(R) MEI Driver

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:57:31AM +0200, Weil, Oren jer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 1) For the review purpose we wanted to split the patches into files, so the
> only way we found to do it is using "git diff", this is they there is not
> signed-off-by line
> Maybe I should have adding a description for every file, I can send another
> mail with the descriptions, sorry for the mess.

Again, please read the documentation on how to properly send patches.
We write it for a reason, not to just be ignored.

Actually, if you do ignore it, it's easy for us to ignore you, and
somehow I doubt you want that.

> 2) "Intel(R) Management Engine Interface (Intel(R) MEI)" - is our official
> name.

That's nice, but it's not anything that kernel developers want to see
all the time.  Drop the (R) please, it's pointless within the kernel
sources.

> 3) we ran checkpatch.pl on every file, this file my by skipped by mistake.

It wasn't the only file you skipped, I saw lots of coding style
violations in the other files, so I really don't believe you.

good luck,

greg k-h